Franois himself, who was certainly a spendthrift?…
My guess is that it was in fact Charles V, who was by definition ‘heaven’s king’ (he was King of Germany and Spain as well as Holy Roman Emperor), was currently spending money on arms and armies as if there were no tomorrow — and was Franois’s ‘host’ to boot . At the same time, though, he was a real bogeyman for the French, so that in the possible subtext ‘deffraieur’ could also be hinting at ‘frightful’ (‘d’effraieur’), as well as at the more obvious and literal ‘defraying’ or even ‘spendthrift’. The details of what happened at Madrid during the period in question are in fact as follow: ——————————————————————————————- Aparently King Franois arrived in his Madrid prison in early August, but by mid-August had fallen gravely ill — severely depressed, anorexic, persistent fever, total apathy, plus nasal abscess — to the point where the doctors actually gave up. On the evening of the 18th Charles V visited him in person. They e
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