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The Field of the Cloth of Gold: When Kings Dressed to Impress for Peace Negotiations
5 June 2020
In the midst of Brexit negotiations, we commemorate the five hundredth anniversary of “the first European summit.” In 1520, a temporary city suddenly emerged in the countryside near Calais. The English King Henry VIII and his French rival, King Francis I, met for diplomatic consultations, which