Bayard: the Good Knight Without Fear and Without Reproach

Download or read book Bayard: the Good Knight Without Fear and Without Reproach written by Christopher Hare and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a biography of the famous 15th Century French knight Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard. Terrail was a French knight and military leader at the transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, generally known as the Chevalier de Bayard. Throughout the centuries since his death, he has been known as "the knight without fear and beyond reproach" (le chevalier sans peur et sans reproche). The most valuable chronicle of the Good Knight's life and deeds was written with charming simplicity by a faithful follower, who, in single-hearted devotion to his beloved master's fame, took no thought for himself, but blotted out his own identity, content to remain for all time a nameless shadow—merely the 'Loyal Servitor.'