CHASTELARD, PIERRE DE BOCSOZEL DE (1540 ), French poet, was born in Dauphine, a scion of the house of Bayard. His name is inseparably connected with Mary, Queen of Scots. From the service of the Constable Montmorency, Chastelard, then a page, to the household of Marshal Dam ville, whom he accompanied on his journey to Scotland in escort of Mary (1561). He returned to Paris in the marshal's train, but left for Scotland again shortly afterwards, bearing letters of rec ommendation to Mary from his old protector, Montmorency, and the Regrets addressed to the ex-queen of France by Pierre Ron sard, his master in the art of song. He undertook to transmit to the poet the service of plate with which Mary rewarded him. But he had fallen in love with the queen, who is said to have encouraged his passion. The young man hid himself under her bed, where he was discovered by her maids of honour. Mary pardoned the of fence, but Chastelard was so rash as again to violate her privacy. He was discovered a second time, seized, sentenced and hanged the next morning. He met his fate valiantly and consistently, reading, on his way to the scaffold, his master's noble Hymne de la mort, and turning at the instant of doom towards the palace of Holy rood, to address to his unseen mistress the famous farewell— "Adieu, toi si belle et si cruelle, qui me tues et que je ne puis cesser d'aimer." This at least is the version of the R7emoires of Brantome.