Allies with the Infidel - The Ottoman and French Alliance in the Sixteenth Century

In 1543, the Ottoman fleet appeared off the coast of France to bombard and lay siege to the city of Nice. This book places the events of 1543 and the subsequent wintering of the Ottoman fleet in Toulon in the context of the power politics of the sixteenth century. It presents the realpolitik of diplomacy with 'infidels' in the early modern era.