. Boys' heroes . He said, God grant to you what I see beginning; you shallbe Prud-homme, by which he meant, you shallbe recognized as a leader of men, a prophecywhich was fulfilled. The times were the times for personal had not wholly put plate armor andthe customs of chivalry out of the way, but the endof them had all but come. I am not sure but Dumas took the idea of hisThree Musketeers from the inseparable alliancebetween Bayard, his friend Bellabre, and the cap-tain of their company, whose name was Louis 1493, they all crossed the Alps together withKing Charles, wh
. Boys' heroes . He said, God grant to you what I see beginning; you shallbe Prud-homme, by which he meant, you shallbe recognized as a leader of men, a prophecywhich was fulfilled. The times were the times for personal had not wholly put plate armor andthe customs of chivalry out of the way, but the endof them had all but come. I am not sure but Dumas took the idea of hisThree Musketeers from the inseparable alliancebetween Bayard, his friend Bellabre, and the cap-tain of their company, whose name was Louis 1493, they all crossed the Alps together withKing Charles, who had undertaken the conquestof Naples. Bayard was twenty years old ; andthus began the career of fighting, which he followedtill he died at the age of forty-eight, with only veryshort interruptions of the days of peace. Likeother soldiers, of that country and that time, hehad various fortunes. But in all adventure heshowed the unflinching courage which has givenhim his fame ; and the stories told of him are ex-. BAYARD. IOI actly like those told in the romances of Arthurand of Amadis. While the French were masters of most ofSouthern Italy, Bayard was made Governor of thecity of Minervino. He was always in the saddle,as if seeking for adventure, and one day captureda convoy of the Spanish enemy, and secured fifteenthousand ducats. A Gascon officer claimed halfthe prize, as having assisted in the capture; butthe court which heard the case refused to ac-knowledge the claim. The man grumbled aboutthis, and said if he had had the money it wouldhave enabled him to lead an honorable life for therest of his days. Is that all you need for valourand honour ? said Bayard, and exhibited thetempting ducats. They are nice lozenges towork such a cure, are they not ? I see you wantto eat them, and you shall. So he gave the dis-contented officer half the money and distributedthe rest among the soldiers. But the end of the French occupation of SouthernItaly had come. The invasion which had begu
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