Commentary On Francis I
Kirby Page writes in Jesus or Christianity, A Study in Contrasts (1929):
Principal Fairbairn of Mansfield College, Oxford, says, "The Roman amphitheater was, compared with the Place Maubert, a home of mild humanity; the gay and careless intolerance of Francis I had nothing to learn from pagan hate...
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