The education of Comines was neglected, and his heritage was heavily encumbered. |
His Froissart and De Comines novels are skipworthy, but when he comes to Catharine de Medici and Henri Quatre he is a magician. |
These particulars are fully related by Comines in his Memoires, liv. |
But was the constitution which Montesquieu praised the same with the constitution which Comines praised? |
Comines was one of the most enlightened statesmen of his time. |
Many monarchs of this day have experienced more than once the truth of the reflection of Comines. |