Abstract EN:

In the prologue of his memoirs, philippe de commynes's purpose is to relate the louis eleventh reign in an authentic and unbiased way. But once the various elements which make up his historical record have been considered closely (style, description of people and their psychology, explanatory and critical digressions, factual accounts, incursion of the first person narration, the use of chronology), the permanence of the golden mean as a contrasted and well-estimated account of life seems to present perfectly the ambiguity of the world and at the same time it allows the author to reconstruct reality in his own favour in spite of the betrayal episode and to achieve a genuine literary work.