02434nam a22003371i 4500 175976 175976 OSt 20200112165231.0 200112r20192018nyuabcjgr|||| 001 0 eng d 9780061563119 RM 96.90 paperback PPAK eng PPAK rda 23 944.028 944.028 FRI G Frieda, Leonie, author. FRANCIS I : The Maker of Modern France / LEONIE FRIEDA First Harper Perennial edition. New York, N.Y. : Harper Perennial, 2019. ©2018. xxx, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, genealogical tables, maps, portraits ; 21 cm. text rdacontent still image rdacontent cartographic image rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. The bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative and entertaining biography that recreates a remarkable era of French history and brings to life a great monarch--FrancisI--who turned France into a great nation. Catherine de Medici's father-in-law, King Francis of France, was the perfect Renaissance knight, the movement's exemplar and its Gallic interpreter. An aesthete, diplomat par excellence, and contemporary of Machiavelli, Francis was the founder of modern France, whose sheer force of will and personality molded his kingdom into the first European superpower. Arguably the man who introduced the Renaissance to France, Francis was also the prototype Frenchman--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 France. 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, father, 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. Francis I, King of France, 1494-1547. France Kings and rulers Biography. France History Francis I, 1515-1547. Biographies. lcgft ddc B 0 0 PPAK G 2020-02-10 944.028 FRI A01632166 2020-02-10 00:00:00 B 0 0 SP G 2020-02-10 944.028 FRI A01632167 2020-02-10 00:00:00 B