This article comes from “Figaro Magazine”
“Bayard moves away, inevitably, becoming unintelligible to us in the distance from the society and values in which he participated,”
observes Thierry Lassabatère.
Doctor from Paris-Sorbonne University, author of a biography of Du Guesclin (Perrin, 2015), this historian sets out in search of the real Bayard.
A scholarly work, the reading of which requires a sustained interest in the period located at the turn of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, but which will fascinate lovers of the literary and cultural approach to history.
Pierre Terrail, lord of Bayard, near Grenoble, distinguished himself so brilliantly during the Italian wars that he entered the legend during his lifetime, a legend which only grew after his death when he became “the good Knight without fear and without reproach”.
However, analyzing how this myth was constructed allows us to shed light on the society in which Bayard lived, but also, provided we disentangle the myth and the reality...
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