Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873, William Pickering (Firm) · London : William Pickering · leaf 194
his countrymen. He showed his taste for poetry and literatureof a lighter and gayer character, by patronizing such men as Clement Marotand Rabelais. The queen of Navarre, Marguerite, so well known by herTales, was his sister. Francis bought, at high prices, foreign paintings toenrich his palaces,… … other noble palaces. Yet in spite of all his genius and liberality, it was in hisreign that those cruel persecutions of the protestants began, which were con-tinued with so much barbarity under his immediate successors. Our engraving is taken from an original painting, said to be by Janet,now in…
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