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Fehl und Tadel“ in die Legende einging. In 3 Teilen erlebt der Leser das von Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué literarisch ausgestaltete Schicksal des französischen Nationalhelden von seiner Geburt bis zu seinem Nachleben. *** The eponymous hero of this epic poem is Bertrand de Guesclin (* ca. 1320 in the Château La Motte-Broons near Dinan; † 13 July 1380 at Châteauneuf-de-Randon/Auvergne), an important Breton military commander and Constable of France, whose military successes in the Hundred Years War between England and France gave him a place in history as a “perfect knight”. In the three sections of Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué’s literary treatment the reader follows this French national hero from his birth to his afterlife.