After his defeat at the Battle of Kolín, Frederick wrote in a letter: "La fortune m'a tourné le dos...[E]lle est femme, et je ne suis pas galant." This has been translated as "Fortune has it in for me; she is a woman, and "I am not that way inclined." The original phrase "je ne suis pas galant"" is somewhat ambiguous. While it would not be inaccurate to translate it as "I am not a lover/suitor (of women)", it could also be translated as the rather less suggestive, "I am not chivalrous".