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It is a measure of Natalie Zemon Davis’s influence as a historian that most people would struggle to name more than a handful of Renaissance monarchs, but a good many have heard of an obscure 16th-century French peasant called Martin Guerre. Or, to be precise, they know about the imposter who assumed Guerre’s identity and took his wife and property, before his…
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