According to Barthelemy-Charles Dumortier, Philippe Mouskes belonged to a family of French aristocrats and was born in the city of Tournai around the end of the 12th century.
The Chronique starts with the legend that, following the model of the Aeneid, makes the Franks siblings of Trojan exiled after the fall of Troy.
The direct historic value and the literary value of the work appear rather weak and it seems that the Chronique, judging from the number of remaining manuscripts, was "coldly received".
It is known essentially by the extracts that du Cange gives in his Glossarium mediae and infimae latinitatis and in his edition of the Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffrey of Villehardouin.
Le donna toute & departi.where Philippe Mouskes bitterly regrets that Charlemagne, after conquering Provence, gave it to his clowns and minstrels (leceours = lècheurs, "gluttons", "parasites").