I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

The myth of the Southern plantation has had only a tangential relation with actuality, as Francis Pendleton Gaines showed forty years ago, and I suspect it has had a far narrower acceptance as something real than has generally been supposed.

`` But brother I can't take a job right now '', she said with her eyes on her ice cream, `` I'm going to have a baby, Francis Xavier's baby, my own husband's baby ''.

Francis I of France recognizes Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, recognizes Francis's claim to Milan.

This use of the title is said to have originated in the right conceded to the king of France, by the concordat between Pope Leo X and Francis I ( 1516 ), to appoint abbés commendataires to most of the abbeys in France.

* 1777 – Francis I of the Two Sicilies ( d. 1830 )

The metre fell into disuse until the reign of Francis I, when it was revived by Jean-Antoine de Baïf, one of the seven poets known as La Pléiade.

In 1806 Francis II ( now Francis I of Austria ) named the Archduke Charles, already a field marshal, as Commander in Chief of the Austrian army and Head of the Council of War.

During Charles V's invasion of Provence in 1536, Francis I of France sent the Count of Fürstenberg's 6000 Landsknechte to ravage the area in a scorched earth policy.

* then to Francis, Duke of Valois, Count of Angoulème, who became Francis I of France, and his descendants, of the Orléans-Angoulème,

** Francis I ( 1515 – 1547 )

** Francis I ( 1825 – 1830 )

** Francis I ( 1442 – 1450 )

Charles V strongly favoured a council, but needed the support of King Francis I of France, who attacked him militarily.

Francis I generally opposed a general council due to partial support of the Protestant cause within France, and in 1533 he further complicated matters when suggesting a general council to include both Catholic and Protestant rulers of Europe that would devise a compromise between the two theological systems.

Pope Clement VII ( 1523 – 34 ) was vehemently against the idea of a council, agreeing with Francis I of France.

* 1708 – Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1765 )

In 1538, King Francis I of France threatened Edmund Bonner — Henry VIII's Ambassador to the French court and later Bishop — with a hundred strokes of the halberd as punishment for Bonner's " insolent behaviour ".

His grandfather, Thomas Francis, founder of the Carignano line of the House of Savoy, was the son of Catherine Michelle – a daughter of Philip II of Spain – and the great-grandson of the Emperor Charles V. But of more immediate consequence to Leopold I was the fact that Eugene was the second cousin of Victor Amadeus, the Duke of Savoy, a connection that the Emperor hoped might prove useful in any future confrontation with France.

With the size of his imperial realm significantly reduced, Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor became Francis I, Emperor of Austria.

** Francis I, 1515 – 1547

Under King Francis I ( who reigned 1515 – 1547 ), the Maréchaussée was merged with the Constabulary.

Francis entered Italy in August 1515, and on 14 September won the battle of Marignano.

The king of Spain wrote to his ambassador at Rome " that His Holiness had hitherto played a double game and that all his zeal to drive the French from Italy had been only a mask "; this reproach seemed to receive some confirmation when Leo held a secret conference with Francis at Bologna in December 1515.

Later, King Francis I again gave the duchy as an appanage to his mother, Louise of Savoy, by letters patent of 4 February 1515.

The permanent exchequer of Normandy, which had been installed in Rouen in 1499 by George of Amboise, was transformed into a regional administrative assembly by Francis I in 1515 and up to the time of the Revolution was the administrative centre of the region.

Francis I () ( 12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547 ) was King of France from 1515 until his death.

By the time he ascended the throne in 1515, the Renaissance had arrived in France, and Francis became a major patron of the arts.

Francis I painted in 1515

Huguenots faced persecution from the outset of the Reformation ; but Francis I ( reigned 1515 – 1547 ) initially protected them from Parlementary measures designed for their extermination.

The Confederation gave up any further conquests after their defeat at the battle of Marignano in 1515 by Francis I of France.

One of its members, Francis I became king of France in 1515 and raised Angoulême to the rank of duchy in favour of his mother Louise of Savoy.

During the reign ( 1515 – 47 ) of Francis I, the property was acquired by René de Cossé, who the king named as governor of Anjou and Maine.

The " Tenerife ", or " Bichon ", had success in France during the Renaissance under Francis I ( 1515 – 1547 ), but its popularity skyrocketed in the court of Henry III ( 1574 – 1589 ).

Protestant ideas were first introduced to France during the reign of Francis I ( 1515 – 47 ) in the form of Lutheranism, the teachings of Martin Luther, and circulated unimpeded for more than a year around Paris.

); Written in collaboration with Paul Meurice ( 1820 – 1905 ): France – History – Francis I, 1515 – 1547 – Fiction.

* King Francis I of France, who succeeded his cousin Louis XII in 1515

However, the death of Julius left the League without effective leadership, and when Louis ' successor Francis I defeated the Swiss at Marignano in 1515, the League collapsed.

He ruled between the occupations of Louis XII of France ( 1500 – 1513 ), and Francis I of France in 1515.

The County of Angoulême returned to the crown when Louis I's great-grandon became Francis I of France in 1515.

He married Filiberta ( 1498 – 1524 ), daughter of Philip II, Duke of Savoy, on 22 February 1515, at the court of France, thanks to the intercession of his brother Giovanni, now Pope as Leo X, in the same year Francis I of France ( Filiberta's nephew ) invested him with the title of Duke of Nemours ( which had recently reverted once again to the French crown ) on the occasion.

On the accession of Francis I in 1515, Bayard was made lieutenant-general of Dauphiné ; but soon accompanied the King and army into the territory of Milan, control of which was challenged by the Swiss.

She was installed here after the death of her husband Louis XII by his successor Francis I of France in 1515 ; Francis wished to monitor Mary closely, particularly to see if she was pregnant.