Her family then really push the case, there’s a soldier who walks past and says “that’s not Martin Guerre, I saw him at war, he only has one leg.” He ends up in another law court and then dramatically the original husband turns up and the imposter ends up getting hung. His wife, who’s called Bertrand, says “Yeah, absolutely, this is my husband, this is Martin Guerre.” She defends him in front of the law courts in the village. It tells a very unusual story about a French peasant who disappears off and leaves his wife and about eight years later this other French peasant turns up and claims to be him. It’s very short, working on a very famous case, it’s been turned into not one, but two films: a French film inevitably starring Gerard Depardieu and a - not particularly good - American version with Richard Gere. “It’s one of the easiest microhistories to get into. Foreign Policy & International Relations.
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