Bayard, the “good knight”, by Thierry Lassabatère: lives up to his legend?. The result of careful investigation, this imposing biography tries to understand who the true “knight without fear and without reproach’ was.
He was one of the rare aristocratic figures of the Ancien Régime whom the republican school of Lavisse had agreed to recognize among the heroes of the ‘national novel’ Since then, the knight Pierre de Bayard, hero of the Italian wars, has fallen into oblivion.