WRITER

Philippe de Commines

1447 - 1511

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Philippe de Commines (or de Commynes or "Philippe de Comines"; Latin: Philippus Cominaeus; 1447 – 18 October 1511) was a writer and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France. He has been called "the first truly modern writer" (Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve) and "the first critical and philosophical historian since classical times" (Oxford Companion to English Literature). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philippe de Commines has received more than 101,205 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Philippe de Commines is the 1,565th most popular writer (up from 1,638th in 2019), the 1,822nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,879th in 2019) and the 229th most popular French Writer.

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  • 58.12

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Les 180 jours de Mitterrand
Fiction, Politics and government
1977
The memoirs of Philip de Commines, Lord of Argenton
History
1855
Le Révolution de 1980
Fiction, Politics and government
1978
The Historical Memoirs of Philip de Comines: Containing the Transactions of ...
Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
1817
La Re volution de 1980
1978

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Philippe de Commines ranks 1,565 out of 7,302. Before him are Michael Moorcock, Jeffery Deaver, Marcel Achard, William Heinesen, Konstantin Simonov, and Anna de Noailles. After him are Hugh Lofting, Robert Brasillach, Jean-François Marmontel, Jonas Lie, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Sister Nivedita.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1447, Philippe de Commines ranks 4. Before him are Bayezid II, Chenghua Emperor, and Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria. After him are Catherine of Genoa, Maria of Serbia, Queen of Bosnia, Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, Pietro Riario, Eberhard II, Duke of Württemberg, and Constantine II of Georgia. Among people deceased in 1511, Philippe de Commines ranks 1. After him are Kemal Reis, Johannes Tinctoris, Oliviero Carafa, Nicolás de Ovando, Francisco de Borja, Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Anne of York, and Francesco Alidosi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Philippe de Commines ranks 1,822 out of 6,770. Before him are Émile Picard (1856), Marie-Pierre Kœnig (1898), Jean-Antoine Marbot (1754), Anna de Noailles (1876), Guillaume de Beaujeu (1300), and Lucile Desmoulins (1770). After him are Yves Congar (1904), Jean Alesi (1964), Robert Brasillach (1909), Georg Muffat (1653), Jean-François Marmontel (1723), and Anselme Payen (1795).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Philippe de Commines ranks 229. Before him are Anne Desclos (1907), Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880), Raymond Roussel (1877), Antoine de Montchrestien (1575), Marcel Achard (1899), and Anna de Noailles (1876). After him are Robert Brasillach (1909), Jean-François Marmontel (1723), Jean Chapelain (1595), Charles Paul de Kock (1793), Robert Desnos (1900), and Marie de Gournay (1565).

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