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Bookmark or Share- The Return of Martin Guerre | Department of HistoryThe astonishing case captured the imagination of the Continent. Told and retold over the centuries, the story of Martin Guerre became a legend, still remembered in the Pyrenean village where the impostor was executed more than 400 years ago.
- The True Story Of Martin Guerre - Media Centre - BBCThe real-life 16th century case has been the inspiration for storytellers ever since, including a French cinema version starring Gérard Depardieu (The Return Of Martin Guerre, 1982), and a ...
- Martin Guerre - WikipediaMartin Guerre (French pronunciation: [maʁtɛ̃ ɡɛʁ]), a French peasant of the 16th century, was at the centre of a famous case of imposture. Several years after Martin Guerre had left his wife, child and village, a man claiming to be him appeared. He lived with Guerre's wife and son for three years.
- Martin Guerre | Character & History | BritannicaMartin Guerre, fictional character in Janet Lewis’s novel The Wife of Martin Guerre (1941), based on a 16th-century villager from Gascony who, after a decade of marriage to Bertrande de Rols, vanishes. About eight years later, Arnaud du Thil, a man resembling Guerre, arrives and is accepted by Guerre’s wife and many of the townspeople as ...
- The Return of Martin Guerre Summary - LitChartsThe Return of Martin Guerre Summary. The historian Natalie Zemon Davis begins by explaining why she decided to write The Return of Martin Guerre, a book about a famous case of imposture in a sixteenth-century French village. Although the story is well-known in film, theater, and popular culture, Davis wanted to write an account of the case from ...
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