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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Bayard: The Good Knight Without Fear And Without Reproach, by Christopher Hare This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Bayard: The Good Knight Without Fear And Without Reproach Author: Christopher Hare Release Date: February 28, 2004 [EBook #11363] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BAYARD: THE GOOD KNIGHT *** Produced by Ted Garvin, Andrea Ball, Thomas Ruley and the Online [Illustration: BAYARD.] BAYARD THE GOOD KNIGHT WITHOUT FEAR AND WITHOUT REPROACH BY CHRISTOPHER HARE WITH COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS BY HERBERT COLE INTRODUCTION That courtesy title which flies to the mind whenever the name Bayard is mentioned--"The Good Knight without Fear and without Reproach"--is no fancy name bestowed by modern admirers, but was elicited by the hero's merits in his own day and from his own people. 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. It is from his record that the incidents in the following pages are retold. The "Loyal Servitor" is now believed from recent research to have been Jacques de Mailles, his intimate friend and companion-at-arms, probably his secretary. He certainly learnt from Bayard himself the story of his early years, which he tells so delightfully, and he writes with the most minute detail about the later events which happened in his presence, and the warlike encounters in which he himself took part; and a most vivid and interesting account he makes of it. In an ancient catalogue of the Mazarine Library, his book is first set down as the _Histoire du Chevalier Bayard, par_ Jacques de Mailles, Paris, in 4to, 1514 (probably a mistake for 1524). The better-known edition, with only the name of the "Loyal Servitor," was published in 1527, under the title of THE VERY JOYFUL AND VERY DELIGHTFUL HISTORY OF THE LIFE, THE HEROIC DEEDS, THE TRIUMPHS AND THE VALOUR OF THE GOOD KNIG
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