Francis I

Leonie Frieda, the bestselling author of Catherine de Medici , returns to sixteenth-century Europe in the evocative and entertaining biography, Francis I . 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 Europe