3-053-381 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Francis I', c1520-1540, (1890). Francis I of France (1494-1547) King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547 the ninth king from the House of Valois and a patron of the arts, he initiated the French Renaissance. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. IV - Modern History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]. (Colorised black and white print).