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all is lost save honor. After Francis I of France was defeated by Spain’s Charles V at Pavia, Italy in 1525, captured, and forced to sign a humiliating treaty, he sat down and wrote to his moth- er. His actual words were not so eloquent, but the most memo- rable phrase in his letter was translated into English as All is lost save honor. Despite the fact that Francis soon lost his honor by breaking the treaty, the sentiments of this patron of Rabelais and creator of Fontainebleau became proverbial. |