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===Exchange of embassies===
[[File:Suleiman Agostino.JPG|thumb|upright|In 1532, the French ambassador [[Antonio Rincon]] presented Suleiman with [[Süleyman the Magnificent's Venetian Helmet|this magnificent tiara or helmet]], made in Venice for 115,000 [[ducats]].<ref name="Garnier, p.52">Garnier, p.52</ref>]]
{{further|Ottoman embassy to France (1533)|Ottoman embassy to France (1534)}}
In early July 1532, Suleiman was joined by the French ambassador [[Antonio Rincon]] in [[Belgrade]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EgQNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA362|title=The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571|first=Kenneth Meyer|last=Setton|date=January 4, 1976|publisher=American Philosophical Society|isbn=9780871691613|via=Google Books}}</ref> Antonio Rincon presented Suleiman with [[Süleyman the Magnificent's Venetian Helmet|a magnificent four-tiered tiara]], made in Venice for 115,000 [[ducats]].<ref name="Garnier, p.52"/> Rincon also described the Ottoman camp:
[[File:Hans Holbein the Younger - The Ambassadors - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|left|The French ambassador to England [[Jean de Dinteville]] in ''[[The Ambassadors (Holbein)|"The Ambassadors"]]'', by [[Hans Holbein the Younger]], 1533, including an example of [[Oriental carpets in Renaissance painting|Ottoman carpets in Renaissance painting]]]]▼
{{blockquote|Astonishing order, no violence. Merchants, women even, coming and going in perfect safety, as in a European town. Life as safe, as large and easy as in Venice. Justice so fairly administered that one is tempted to believe that the Turks are turned Christians now, and that the Christians are turned Turks.|Antonio Rincon, 1532.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wubz9RQxtIQC&pg=PA158|title=Margaret of Angouleme - Queen of Navarre|first=A. Mary F.|last=Robinson|date=March 4, 2007|publisher=Read Books|isbn=9781406733648|via=Google Books}}</ref>}}
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Francis I explained to the [[Republic of Venice|Venetian]] ambassador [[Giorgio Gritti]] in March 1531 his strategy regarding the Turks:<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rvEBMIIcHQkC&pg=PA224|title=Francis I|author1-link=Robert Knecht|first=R. J.|last=Knecht|date=April 26, 1984|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521278874|via=Google Books}}</ref>
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