page_title: Franco-Ottoman alliance
section_title: Joint siege of Nice (1543)
hierarchical_section_title: Franco-Ottoman alliance / Alliance of Francis I and Suleiman / Italian War of 1542–1546 and Hungary Campaign of 1543 / Joint siege of Nice (1543)
caption_attribution_description: English: Siège of the fleet othoman and french, in 1543, in front of the remparts of the town of Nice. Français&#160;: Siège de la flotte ottomane et française, en 1543, devant les remparts de la ville de Nice. Italiano: Assedio della flotta ottomana e francese , nel 1543, davanti le mura di cinta della città di Nizza. Español: Asedio de la ciudad de Niza en 1543 por las flotas francesa y otomana, durante la guerra italiana de 1542 - 1546.
context_page_description: The Franco-Ottoman alliance, also Franco-Turkish alliance, was an alliance established in 1536 between the king of France Francis I and the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Suleiman the Magnificent. The strategic and sometimes tactical alliance was one of the most important foreign alliances of France, and was particularly influential during the Italian Wars. The Franco-Ottoman military alliance is said to have reached its peak around 1553 during the reign Henry II of France.
  The alliance was exceptional, as the first non-ideological alliance between a Christian and Muslim state, and caused a scandal in the Christian world. Carl Jacob Burckhardt called it "the sacrilegious union of the lily and the crescent". It lasted intermittently for more than two and a half centuries, until the Napoleonic campaign in Ottoman Egypt, in 1798–1801.
context_section_description: Most notably, the French forces, led by François de Bourbon and the Ottoman forces, led by Barbarossa, joined at Marseille in August 1543, and collaborated to bombard the city of Nice in the Siege of Nice. In this action 110 Ottoman galleys, amounting to 30,000 men, combined with 50 French galleys. The Franco-Ottomans laid waste to the city of Nice, but were confronted by a stiff resistance which gave rise to the story of Catherine Ségurane. They had to raise the siege of the citadel upon the arrival of enemy troops.
caption: In the Siege of Nice in 1543, a combined Franco-Turkish force managed to capture the city.
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