Bard Bard In medieval Gaelic and British culture, a bard was a professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or noble), to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities. Originally a specific, lower class of poet, contrasting with the higher rank known as "fili" in Ireland and Highland Scotland, with the decline of living bardic tradition in the modern period the term "bard" acquired generic meanings of an author or minstrel, especially a famous one. For example, William Shakespeare, and Rabindranath Tagore,
Bard-lès-Époisses the D4M south-west of Jeux-lès-Bard. Apart from some forest in the north the commune is almost entirely farmland. The "Ru d'Acier" stream flows through the east of the commune from south-west to north-east and continues to join the "Ruisseau de la Prée" north-east of Jeux-lès-Bard. For many centuries the commune was called "Bar". Bar was an annex of Torcy with its patron Saint Matthew. Attached to the diocese of Langres, the parish had 3 parts: Bar, Jeux (formerly "Jox" and "Jovum"), and a portion of Corrombles called the Rue de Bar. The parish had 300 communicants. The Lord was the