Over the centuries it was retold in books on famous impostors and causes celebres, and is still remembered in the Pyrenean village of Artigat where the events took place four hundred years ago. All over France there were comments on it, by the great Montaigne among others. Two books were immediately written about the case, one by a judge of the court. The man almost persuades the court he is Martin Guerre, when at the last moment the true Martin Guerre appears. In the 1540s in Languedoc, a rich peasant leaves his wife, child, and property and is not heard from for years he comes back-or so everyone thinks-but after three or four years of agreeable marriage the wife says she has been tricked by an impostor and brings him to trial. The story of Martin Guerre has been recounted many times. Of a historian's adventure with a different way of telling about the past. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Davis, Natalie Zemon, 1928-The return of Martin Guerre. Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, EnglandĬopyright © 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America The Return of Martin Guerre Natalie Zemon Davis
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