Justinien Trouve or Gods Bastard

Set in the French countryside in the 1600s a lone rider deposits a newborn baby boy on the steps of a monastery having bitten his nose off The child is bought up by an expirate and his wife and is taught to read write count joust and fence and is also given a wooden nose However he is ordered by a local baron to attend a tough seminary but he soon rebels and makes an actionpacked escape