The Age of Chivalry Scenes From the Lives of the Chevalier Bayard And Sir Phil
The Age of Chivalry Scenes From the Lives of the Chevalier Bayard And Sir Phil
Philip H Johnstone
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The noble-hearted Chevalier was not one of these. The chief man in the province, he set an example to all, high and low, by himself going among the stricken population of Grenoble, and personally attending to their wants. He brought physicians from all parts. THE LAST VICTORY. 93 whom he paid to attend the sick poor, for whom he provided medicines and necessaries ; and the result of this energetic charity was that the course of the terrible plague was at length stayed, and Bayard earned the gra...titude of thousands who had been saved by his means, and another claim to be called " the knight without fear and without reproach, " The year 1523 opened with a disastrous event for France. The Duke of Bourbon was the most powerful nobleman in the kingdom, and had for a long time held the office of Constable of France, which gave him the right of commanding the van of the army in battle, with authority even superior to the King's, Francis, being probably jealous of his great power, had taken an unreasonable dislike to hira, which was manifested by repeated insults not to be borne by the haughty spirit of the Constable, who, driven to extrem- ity, and forgetful of his duty to King and country, at length determined upon the desperate step of leaguing himself with the Emperor and Henry VIII, for the invasion of Frauce; and his treachery having been discovered, he was compelled to fly for safety into Germany.
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