55 (Fall 1982). The original was published in 1561 .

Michel de Montaigne, “Of Cripples,” in

The Complete Essays of Montaigne , trans. from the French by Donald M. Frame (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1965). Montaigne’s comments on the Guerre case appear, fittingly, in an essay on our limited ability to discern the truth. The essay was originally published in 1588 .

Janet Lewis,

The wife of Martin Guerre (San Francisco: Colt Press, 1941). Lewis’s quaint novel has little in common with Davis’s historical account, except that it portrays an independent-minded woman .

Natalie Zemon Davis,

The Return of Martin Guerre (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983). Who would have thought that a scholarly study of sixteenth-century peasant life could also be a tragic love story?

Robert Finlay, “The Refashioning of Martin Guerre,”

American Historical Review

93, no. 3. In Finlay’s view, Davis has perpetrated a fraud almost as ingenious as Arnaud’s. “The virtues of

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