Originally tolerant of Protestants, he began persecuting them after finding anti-Catholic posters at his door in the (*) Affair of the Placards.
The work Commentariorum linguae Latinae was dedicated to this king by Etienne Dolet, who was rumored to be his bastard son. This king created the first legal deposit system with his Ordonnance de Montpellier and put Guillaume Bude in charge of his Royal Library. Originally tolerant of Protestants, he began persecuting them after finding anti-Catholic posters at his door in the (*) Affair of the Placards. The English fought this man in the Four Years' War after he failed to forge an alliance with them at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. In a later Italian War, Hayreddin Barbarossa's Ottoman navy helped him gain victory during the Siege of Nice against the allies of his archrival Charles V. For 10 points, name this French Renaissance monarch who ordered the construction of the French castle of Fontainebleau, received the last breath of Leonardo da Vinci, and was beaten at the Battle of Pavia.
The work Commentariorum linguae Latinae was dedicated to this king by Etienne Dolet, who was rumored to be his bastard son.
Francis I of France [or Francois I de France]