burnishedee, francis his image, making use of the printing press, recently had poetsand also take part in what was later to be known as public relations. it was only 300 years later, upon the restoration, that louis xviii and charles x called on him to praise the virtues of an enlightened monarchy. >> he was even maybe prototype and founder of french culture in society. being this renaissance prince, this prince of good taste and culture and gallantry, he became the idea of french men worldwide. >> it is an image of the thatssance prints endures in textbooks to this day. nicknamesthe king's -- there certainly was a monarch who had an incredible nose for the arts. i'm in the king's gallery, surrounded by renaissance frescoes that were painted and carved during his reign. seems here with his personal salamander emblem. i, palaces francis were decorated with just a scattering of paintings, and not a single sculpture. but this fervent patron of the his artists across europe. fascinated by history, iterature, the young francis return from his military campaign with one clear ambition, to re