Francis I of France dies at Rambouillet: March 31st, 1547.(Freeze Frame)

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March 31st, 1547

In life Francis I, `Most Christian King' of a France that only sixty years before his accession had finally expelled English occupiers from the realm (and had still to tolerate Calais as an English enclave until 1559), was frequently compared to and set as a rival against, his Tudor counterpart, Henry VIII. So it was not unfitting that this symmetry was carried almost to the grave, with Francis' death coming just two months after Henry's at Greenwich.

Though he had been ageing for some time, and out of sorts since the beginning of ...

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