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LEFT BAY 451 BAYARD BAY, an arm or inlet of the sea ex- tending into the land, with a wider mouth proportionally than a gulf. Com- pare in this respect the Bay of Biscay with the Gulf of Venice. In hydraulics: a pond-head raised to keep a store of water for driving a mill. In architecture: a term used to sig- nify the magnitude of a building. Thus, if a barn consists of a floor and two heads, where they lay corn, they call it a barn of two bays. These bays are from 14 to 20 feet long, and floors from 10 to 12 broad, and usually 20 feet long, which is the breadth of the barn. BAYwAJDERE, a name originally given by the Portuguese to the singing and dancing girls of Hindustan. They are of two kinds — those who are employed as priestesses in the temples, and those who go about the country as itinerants. The former class celebrate with song and dance the festivals of the gods ; the latter are employed by the grandees of India to amuse them. BAYAMO.orSAN SALVADOR, a town in the interior of the E. part of the island of Cuba, situated in a fertile and healthy district on the northern slope of the Sierra Maestra. It is connected by a railway with Manzanilla. Pop. about 5,000. BAYARD, PIERRE DU TERRAIL, SEIGNEUR DE (bi-yar'), the Bon Chevalier sans Peur et sans Reproche (good knight without fear and without reproach), and from whom is derived the proverbial saying, "Brave as Bay- ard," was born in 1476, of an ancient and noble French family of Dauphine. He early displayed the indomitable reso- lution, courage, military skill, and honor which made him the model of knight- hood, and caused his sovereign, Francis I., to covet as an honor the ceremony of being dubbed a knight by his hands. Bayard, at 13 years old, was placed as a page in the house of the Duke of Savoy, where he remained for five years. On the completion of his 18th year he became a soldier. The first battle at which he fought was that of Fornovo, in 1494, under the banner of Charles VIII., when he distinguished himself. He fought in the Italian wars of Louis XIT. and once held a bridge single-handed enabling the French to retreat. In 1513 he fought at the famous battle of the Spurs, in Picardy, where his valor saved the dis- grace of the whole French army. On this occasion Bayard surrendered to an English knight, but was soon exchanged. In the battle of Marignano, fought Sept. 13, 1515, Bayard displayed his usual prowess; and in 1521 he defended Me- ao — Vol. I — Cyc zieres, a frontier town of France, against the Count of Nassau, with a force of 35,000 men. Bayard was as conspicuous for military skill as for bravery; but lacking the arts of the courtier, he was never appointed to the command of armies. Nevertheless, in moments of danger and difficulty, he was always looked up to for advice. In 1524, he served under Admiral Bonnivet in Italy against the Imperialists under the Con- stable de Bourbon, and at the passage of the Sesia received his mortal wound. He refused to be carried off the field, saying he would not then, for the first time, turn his back on the enemy. Re- clining at the foot of a tree, he still urged on his comrades. The Constable coming up was affected at the sight, and the noble Bayard, with almost his last breath, is said to have uttered the re- buke, "It is not me you should mourn for, but yourself fighting against your King and your country," after which he died. His life was written by his loyal serviteur, or secretary, and has passed through many editions. BAYARD, THOMAS FRANCIS, an American statesman and diplomatist, born in Wilmington, Del., Oct. 29, 1828. He came of a family which for four suc- cessive generations represented the State of Delaware in the United States Senate. The first of his ancestors to settle in that State was Peter, a son of Petrus Bayard, probably a collateral descendant of the celebrated Chevalier Bayard and Anne C. Stuyvesant, the latter a sister of Peter Stuyvesant, the last of the Dutch Gover- nors of New Netherlands. Mr. Bayard's great-grandfather, Richard Bassett, was a member of the convention that framed the Constitution of the United States. Mr. Bayard was admitted to the bar in 1851 and practiced law until 1868, when he succeeded his father, James A. Bay- ard, in the United States Senate. In the Democratic National Convention of 1872 he received 15 votes for the presi- dential nomination, and in the conven- tion of 1876, 31 votes, which he turned over to Samuel J. Tilden. In 1880 and again in 1884 his name was voted on in the National convention of his party. In 1885 he was chosen by President Cleveland as Secretary of State, and on Cleveland's second election, in 1892, he was appointed United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James, being the first to bear that title. While holding this high office he won many friends by his personal charm of manner, and his public utterances promoted good feeling in both social and government circles. He died in Dedham, Mass., Sept. 28, 1898.