SIR WALTER SCOTT, who founded one of his best novels [Quentin Durward]
upon the MEMOIRS OF PHILIP DE COMMINES, calls him “one of the most
profound statesmen, and certainly the best historian of his age;” and
quoting Ronsard, the poet, adds, “that he was the first to show the
lustre which valour and noble blood derived from being united with
learning.”—_See a Note to Quentin Durward._
“Above all men,” says Dryden, “in this kind of writing, may be accounted
the plain, sincere, unaffected, and most instructive PHILIP DE COMMINES.
I am sorry I cannot find in our own nation (though it has produced some
commendable historians) any worthy to be ranked with him.”
LONDON:
A. and G. A. SPOTTISWOODE,
New-street-Square.
[Illustration: _Charles the Bold._
_Soutman._
_Hinchliff._]
THE MEMOIRS
OF
PHILIP DE COMMINES,
LORD OF ARGENTON:
CONTAINING THE
HISTORIES OF LOUIS XI. AND CHARLES VIII., KINGS OF FRANCE
AND OF
CHARLES THE BOLD, DUKE OF BURGUNDY.
TO WHICH IS ADDED,
THE SCANDALOUS CHRONICLE,
OR
SECRET HISTORY OF LOUIS XI.,
BY JEAN DE TROYES.
EDITED WITH LIFE AND NOTES,
BY ANDREW R. SCOBLE, ESQ.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
1855.