Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1904 — A Motto Gone Wrong. [ARTICLE]

A Motto Gone Wrong.

King Francis I. of France, who reigned in the middle of the sixteenth century, dressed himself elaborately for the battig of Fa via, which he expected to win and thereby to become tbe master of Italy. An old chronicle says: “The king of France in his armor went about from squadron to squadron, and he wore over his mail a siircoat of brocade and brown velvet checker wise, with many F’s embroidered thereon in velvet on the brocade and in brocade on the velvet and with cords of gold and brown silk. On his helmet lie wore a great yellow and brown plume, the feathers drooping down to the horse’s flanks, a lid' from the midst of them rose a brown pennon with a red salamander, having above it a great gilt F and around it the words, ‘This time and no more.’ This motto he bore because he thought on that day certainly to make himself lord of Italy.” However, he lost the battle and was taken prisoner.