<P> Francis appears as the patron of Benvenuto Cellini in the 1843 French novel L'Orfèvre du roi, ou Ascanio by Alexandre Dumas, père . </P> <P> Samuel Shellabarger's novel The King's Cavalier describes Francis the man, and the cultural and political circumstances of his reign, in some detail . </P> <P> He was a recurring character in the Showtime series The Tudors, opposite Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Henry VIII and Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn . Francis is played by French actor, Emmanuel Leconte . </P> <P> He and his court set the scene for Friedrich Schiller's ballad Der Handschuh (The Glove). </P>

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