Jean Sévilla: Who really was Chevalier Bayard?. “Bayard moves away, inevitably, becoming unintelligible to us in the distance from the society and values in which he participated,” observes Thierry Lassabatère.
Pierre Terrail, lord of Bayard, near Grenoble, distinguished himself so brilliantly during the Italian wars that he entered the legend during his lifetime. However, analyzing how this myth was constructed allows us to shed light on the society in which Bayard lived.