Philippe de Commines was a writer and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France. He has been called "the first truly modern writer" and "the first critical and philosophical historian since classical times". Neither a chronicler nor a historian in the usual sense of the word, his analyses of the contemporary political scene are what made him virtually unique in his own time.
- Occupation
- writer, diplomat, historian, essayist
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of France
- Born
- 1447
- Died
- October 28, 1511, 1511
