Who Was Arnaud Duped Bertrande?

In 16th century France marriage is not seen as a bond between two people that love each other. It is instead seen as a man and wife being arranged together as one to assume duties of gender roles such as the woman having children and taking care of the house, fields, children, and husband. The man assumes the role of working and passing on family traditions such as working the land and tending to livestock. Martin Guerre and Bertrande go through the exact same custom except Bertrande is not an everyday 16th century woman. She is independent and does not want to conform to customs she does not wholeheartedly agree with. So when Martin Guerre leaves, Bertrande sees his departure as an opportunity, especially

Natalie Zemon-Davis’s 1983 book The Return of Martin Guerre provided both the public and academic world with a fresh and interesting take on a classic story. Presented like a mystery thriller, Davis weaves a tale of deception based on a solid framework of cultural history. Her narrative depends on grounding the characters of Bertrande de Rols, Martin Guerre, Arnaud du Tihl, and their associates within a web of social context. Davis draws heavily on the traditional Coras narrative, but also supplements the established story with the version presented in Le Sueur, a new source she discovered. Additionally, she incorporates unusual sources dealing with broader social context and infers specifics from a general study of period interactions. It is this latter approach that historian Robert Finlay disagrees with. He claims that Davis does not appropriately rely on the source material provided by the Coras narrative and thus gives an unnecessarily dramatic version of events. The AHR forum on the subject includes both Finlay’s review and Davis’s response, providing a model of scholarly debate that extends beyond the actual content of the book in question. In addition to being a rhetorical critique, Finlay is attacking the foundational methodology of modern social history that Davis is then compelled to defend.

In the book “The Return of Martin Guerre” by Natalie Zemon Davis it tells a story about a time in 1560 when a man named of Martin Guerre was impostered by a man named Arnaud Du Tilh. As an infant Martin’s father moved his family to the small town along the French and Spain board name Artigat. In his early teenage years while living here Martin marries a young lady named Bertrande. After being married for several years Bertrande became pregnant and had their only son named Sanxi.

Lemuel Haynes was a very well respected man. He played a large part in developing equal rights amongst the African Americans. He shaped what would be the start of many changes for them. The Second Great Awakening was the beginning of an important and changing time in history. This event helped shape who Lemuel would become as a person and what his life would hold. He was born a slave and abandoned at birth. Lemuel then became a servant for a white family in Massachusetts, who were strong Calvinists. He was granted freedom and then went on to serve several terms, as the first black minuteman in the American Revolution. He experienced a lot of fighting while at war and during that time he wrote several sermons and life lessons.

During the 16th century peasants held agriculture, farming, and sex as important. Intercourse was not viewed as pleasure but rather a way to create heirs to the family. Peasants married for money not love. Throughout the book The Return of Martin Guerre, Natalie Zemon Davis uses sex and sexual references were used to support the claim that Bertrande knew Arnaud was not her husband, but with knowledge brought up in Robert Finlay ’s argument it becomes aware that Davis’ argument contains assumption and lacks evidence which raises the debate of whether or not Bertrande knew Arnaud was her husband.

When Arnaud  first approached Bertrande  he greets her by saying “Madame you are truly beautiful”. This is something martin would never say. Bertrande is disappointed as she realizes the real Martin would not treat her that way.

The controversial story of Martin Guerre becomes intensified as historian Natalie Davis and Robert Finlay makes their persuasive argument. Davis presents the story in a humorous way, portraying Bertrande sympathetically and developing her as an “honorable” figure. In the sixteenth century France, honor is a central aspect of women's identity and reputation. To gain honor, the woman remained faithful to their husband and followed the strict rules of Canon law, married women were not allowed to remarry or make a relationship with other men without the proof of husband’s death (Davis, Martin 20). However, presenting Bertrande de Rols as a strong assertive woman Davis intentionally reveals that Bertrande is capable of doing more than the housework.

Natalie Zemon Davis’ The Return of Martin Guerre tells the true story of a peasant named Martin Guerre, who was at the center of a famous case of imposture in France in the sixteenth century. Davis takes the facts of this famous case from two primary sources including a book written by one of the trial judges of the case in Toulouse, Jean de Coras, called Arreste Memorable and one by a lawyer, Guillaume La Sueur, called Admiranda Historia. Davis uses other secondary sources to add details about peasant life including information about marriage, family, economics, religion, village social structure, as well as the political structure of the time. Davis moves beyond the facts and tries to interpret and understand the motivations of the characters in the story. For example, she assumes that Bertrande silently agreed to the fraud of Arnaud du Tilh because she wanted a husband and could not remarry after her husband abandoned her. This seems more believable to me than Bertrande just being stupid or naive and not knowing the difference between her husband and a stranger. In the preface of the book she admits she was “generating not proofs, but historical possibilities” (Davis, viii). I

Family- Arnaud tried to seek freedom by saying he was "Martin" because he wanted to be able to take the real Martins place and be the husband to his wife. He wanted to be free and be able to have a new life with Betrande. He wanted to

It seems as though in today’s society, suspicion lies in every corner. No one trusts anyone anymore, everyone lies, everyone steals, everyone pretends to be someone they are not. However true or false these statements might be, there is a need in today’s society to be able to explain everything, coming up with every possible lie or predicament within every story. Natalie Davis is from today’s society, and once again, she has found the need to investigate Bertrande Guerre’s role within The Return of Martin Guerre. The only pieces of evidence that are reliable come from Jean de Coras, the main judge in the trial. However, Davis seems to have ignored his findings, and founded her own. For most of her points, there is no written evidence to

After the trial, according to Davis, there was a scheme by the couple to show Pierre coerced Bertrande into lying for him. Consequently, Davis interprets Bertrande’s actions as a double game. Bertrande first “sends him [the imposter] food and money to indicate her support, but then she agrees with Pierre that she will become a plaintiff” (56). Davis shows

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Besides the above mentioned social identity and stereotyping problem, we may also see some other perceptual errors given in the case, such as false-consensus effect. It is the tendency for people to project their way of thinking onto other people, or assume that everyone else thinks the same way they do. Gilman apparently overestimated the extent to which Beauport had beliefs and characteristics similar to his own.

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