In 1494 at the treaty of Cateau-Cambresis, in 1559, the kings of France, fascinated by the development, the wealth and the civilization of the Italian states, engaged in a cycle of endless wars. They turned to the disaster in the diplomatic and strategic, exhausting the kingdom. On the other hand, they caused a sharp acceleration of technical progress, the artillery at the printing press, and produced, in the words of Michelet, "the shock and the spark" which did hatch the French Renaissance, marked by an extraordinary radiation of the arts, letters and language nat...
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