(Philip de), an excellent historian, born of a noble family in Flanders in 1416. He lived in a kind of intimacy with Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, for about eight years; but being seduced.

a town of French Flanders on the lines which the French have made to defend their country against the Austrian Netherlands. It is situated on the river Lis, in E. Long. 3. 1. N. Lat. 50. 30.