There's something like that in England, one of our king's, Richard the Lionheart (a Frenchman incidentally) his reputation is of a good strong and wise king. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth, he never set foot in England himself, he just fought wars in the middle east and when he needed money he taxed us English into poverty. There's no real mythology around him but his body is buried in London and his heart in Paris.
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