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character of Guerre
- In Martin Guerre
…why the impostor succeeded in The Return of Martin Guerre, first published in French in 1982 and in English in 1983. Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil’s musical Martin Guerre opened in 1996.
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microhistory
- In historiography: Social and cultural history
…miller, and Natalie Zemon Davis’s The Return of Martin Guerre (1983), a scholarly treatment of a famous true story about an imposter who took over the farm (and bed) of a substantial peasant in 16th-century France. Typically, microhistories featured central characters who were socially marginalized—exactly the sort likely to be…
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