Charles VIII had left neither son, nor brother; Louis XII, who succeeded to him, belonged to another branch, connects it of Valois-Orleans; his father was Charles of Orleans, the prince poet; his grandfather, Louis of Orleans, assassinated street Old woman-of-Temple in 1407; finally its great-grandfather was the king of France Charles V.

Maximilien, emperor of Germany, had married the girl of Charles the Bold one, Marie of Burgundy, which had brought to him in dowry many provinces.

Become widowed, it disputed in Charles VIII the hand of Anne of Brittany, failed in its company, and married the girl of the duke of Milan.

He was the enemy of France.

Bayard deserved to be called the knight without fear and reproach.

In the disastrous countryside of Italy, it was him which saved the honor of France.

After the battle of Garigliano, it only defended a bridge with him against two hundred Spaniards; it cut down all those which approached it, and the piled up bodies formed soon a bloody barricade, which Bayard made insuperable.

A hundred men-at-arms ran to his help, and the Spanish avant-garde had to give up forcing the bridge.

The French Army, which seemed entirely lost, had time to be folded up on Gaëte (1503).

Louis XII overcome, and touched sufferings of the people, was going to buy peace under unfavorable conditions for France; but the general States, joined together with Tours, begged it to continue the war rather, thanked it for its benefits and decreed to him the title of Father of the People (1506).

Bayard was as good as brave man.

After the catch of Brescia by the French (1512), only one house escaped from plundering: it was that where was placed wounded Bayard; while the other inhabitants, men and women, underwent all the insults, protected from Bayard were respected, and did not have to pay any ransom.