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The Return of Martin Guerre
Title: The Return of Martin Guerre
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 836 | Pages: 3.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Return of Martin Guerre
The Return of Martin Guerre
Historian Natalie Zemon Davis wrote an informative novel
about the lives of peasants in the sixteenth century. Entitled
The Return of Martin Guerre, Davis tells a true story about a law
suit against a man claiming to be someone he is not. She
familiarizes the reader with peasantry, laws, and moral attitudes
of the time.
The story begins in 1527 with a family move from the French
Basque country to the …showed first 75 words of 836 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 836 total…of “imposture and
false supposition of name and of adultery” (86), a serious crime
in that day, penalized by physical punishment or death. Arnaud
received the latter.
The story of Martin Guerre has be told and retold throughout
French history. Natalie Zemon Davis cleverly told the history of
small town French peasants in her version of the story through
collected data and journals form the sixteenth-century. Her
method of teaching history is creative and very interesting.
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