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=King Francis the 1st of France=

[[image:Francis.jpg width="213" height="296" align="left"]]Here are a few details about my life:
I was born in the 1490s and I died in the 1540s

I contributed to the Renaissance in the following ways:
Without my money, Leonardo da Vinci couldn’t have done much, He was like a son to me, he even died in my arms [pictured bottom] and worked for me with Andrea del sarto, They even listened to me when I asked them to leave Italy in the last part of my life! I was even kind enough to give a sum of money to Benvenuto Cellini, Rosso, Romano, Primaticcio, Michelangelo, Titian and even Raphael for working for me. See even the biggest names in Italy decided to work for me.

I think these contributions were particularly important:
because I gave Leonardo da Vinci the chance to frame his work in very big art galleries like La Louvre

the picture shown here:
is of me which helps to show that I really thought of Leonardo as a son