Born in the castle from Comines in 1445, dead in the castle of Argenton in 1509, Philippe of Clyte, lord of Comines is a chronicler author of famous Memories on the reigns of Louis XI and Charles VIII. He was successively with the service of Charles the Bold one in 1464, then of Louis XI, Charles VIII and Louis XII. He knew several times disgrace and the prison. Been moved to Venice, he prepared the expedition of Italy there after the Treaty of Senlis. His work of historian is of first order. Without comparing him to his Machiavellian contemporary, he is like him not very sensitive to the good and the evil, only interested by the skill. He is a major policy, but a naive chronicler, practicing the maxim of Louis XI, the end justifies the means.