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FRANCIS I (FRANCOIS)
French king
(1494 - 1547)

All is lost save honor.
      - [Honor]

Madame, that you may know the state of the rest of my misfortune, there is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved.
  [Lat., Madame, pour vous faire savoir comme se porte le reste de mon infortune, de toutes choses m'est demeure que l'honneur et la vie qui est sauve.]
      - to his mother, written in letter given to Viceroy of Naples morning after Pavia
        [Honor]

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.
      - [Art]

Woman is always fickle--foolish is he who trusts her.
  [Fr., Toute femme varie
    Bien fol est qui s'y fie.]
      - scratched with his ring on a window of Chambord Castle
        [Women]

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