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SALAMANDER : EMBLEM OF FRANCIS I. 



CHAPTER II. 



STYLE OF FRANCIS I. (1515-45). 



KING. 



FRANCIS I. (1515-47). Initial F. 

 Emblem Salamander among flames. 

 Motto " Nutri. sco et extinguo." 



QUEENS. 



CLAUDE OF FRANCE. Initial C. 

 Emblem Swan transfixed, or full 

 moon. Motto " Candida candidis. '' 



ELEANOR OF AUSTRIA. Initial E. 

 Emblem Phcenix, or tree and sun 

 Motto " His sujffulla." 



CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH SOVEREIGN. 

 HENRY VIII. (1509-47). 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 



REIGN OF FRANCIS I. The reigns of Charles VIII. and Louis XII. 

 had been a stage of transition in other spheres than that of architecture. 

 The ideas underlying the Renaissance were permeating French society, 

 and the next reign was to see their fruition. It opened under propitious 

 auspices. The young prince, who ascended the throne in 1515, seemed 

 to have all in his favour. Adventurous, gallant, and open-handed, with 

 chivalrous instincts and artistic and intellectual tastes, of athletic build 

 and kingly bearing, Francis I. seemed the embodiment of the new era. 



The new national life had lost neither its vigour nor its appetite 

 for expansion. The people were industrious and unprecedentedly 

 prosperous, and the prospects of the government were bright. Art and 

 literature were reviving. Reform was in the air. It was a moment 

 of unbounded enthusiasm and hopefulness, and the young king seemed 

 destined to inaugurate a new heaven and a new earth. To some extent 



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