Francis I: The Maker of Modern France

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative and entertaining biography that recreates a remark able era of French history and brings to life a great monarch-Francis I-who turned France into a great nation. Catherine de Medici's father-in-law, King Francis of France, was the perfec t Renaissance knight, the movement's exemplar and its Gallic interpreter. A n aesthete, diplomat par excellence, and contemporary of Machiavelli, Franc is was the founder of modern France, whose sheer force of will and personal ity molded his kingdom into the first European superpower. Arguably the man who introduced the Renaissance to France, Francis was also the prototype F renchman-a national identity was modeled on his character. So great was his stamp, that few countries even now are quite so robustly patriotic as is F rance. Yet as Leonie Frieda reveals, Francis did not always live up to his ideal; a man of grand passions and vision, he was also a flawed husband, fa ther, lover, and king. With access to private archives that have never been used in a study of Francis I, Frieda explores the life of a man who was the most human of the monarchs of the period-and yet, remains the most elusive.

Product Info

ISBN: 0061563110

ISBN-13: 9780061563119

Publisher: HarperCollins

Year: 2021

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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