The return of Martin Guerre

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162 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 2002 by Harvard University Press.

OCLC Number:
9350444

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Recounts the history of French imposter Arnaud du Tilh and his denouncement in court by Martin Guerre, whose identity, property, and wife du Tilh tried to claim. Reveals new information about sixteenth-century peasant life.

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Subjects

  • Du Tilh, Arnault, -- d. 1560.,
  • Guerre, Martin, -- fl. 1539-1560.
  • Trials (Impostors and imposture) -- France.
  • Impostors and imposture -- France.