A FINE EXHIBITION OF HORSEMANSHIP

BATTLE OF FORNOVO

BAYARD DEFENDS THE BRIDGE

THE PAGE PRESENTS HIS PRISONER

SEIZURE OF THE SPY

BAYARD PRESENTED TO HENRY VIII

THE DEATH OF BAYARD




[Illustration: LE CHEVALIER BAYARD _Sans peur et sans reproche_.]

THE STORY OF BAYARD

CHAPTER I


Pierre Terrail, the renowned Bayard of history, was born at the Castle of
Bayard, in Dauphiné, about the year 1474, when Louis XI. was King of
France. He came of an ancient and heroic race, whose chief privilege had
been to shed their blood for France throughout the Middle Ages.

The lord of Bayard had married Hélène Alleman, a good and pious lady of a