the Collection of her Letters, published in 1841, by M.F.
Genin.

This last collection is, morally as well as historically, the most interesting of the three.

As for Francis I.himself, there is little, if anything, known of his posies beyond those which have been inserted in the _Documents relatifs a sa Captivite a Madrid,_ published in 1847 by M.Champollion-Figeac; some have an historical value, either as regards public events or Francis I.'s relations towards his mother, his sister, and his mistresses; the most important is a long account of his campaign, in 1525, in Italy, and of the battle of Pavia; but the king's verses have even less poetical merit than his sister's.
Francis I.'s good will did more for learned and classical literature than for poesy.

Attention has already been drawn to the names of the principal masters in the great learned and critical school which devoted itself, in this reign, to the historical, chronological, philological, biographical, and literary study of Greek and Roman antiquity, both Pagan and Christian.

It is to the labors of this school and to their results that the word Renaissance is justly applied, and that the honor is especially to be referred of the great intellectual progress made in the sixteenth century.