Montaigne in The Return of Martin Guerra by Natalie Zemon Davis

It is noteworthy that Montagne made reasonable judgment based on information provided by the employee who lived in the New World. Contrary to educated men, the servant of Montagne is a simple person who is not compelled to explain what he observed, but simply tells the truth. Because the servant is "an ordinary ignorant man, it seems more likely to tell the truth: a well trained man is more interested in their observations" (man-eating, 2). Therefore, Montagne shows that a reasonable judgment for his own new world is based on a simple person he has no money to make the false relationship the truth.

Martin Guerre of Natalie Zemon Davis succeeded in using the micro-historical approach to thoroughly examine the story of this amazing marriage fraud. The micro history of Davis is based mainly on two stories of the trial. They became widespread after the end - one was judge Jean de Coras and the other was led by legal scholar Guillaume Le Sueur. In addition, Zemon Davis rebuilt Martin, Arnaud, and most important Bertrande's wishes and agents, using courts and financial records. But it is not only that Davis's statement reveals the character of these characters, but also that the experiences of the three villagers "prove that it is not outside the neighbor's more general experience" . Multistage, cheaters' production is related to a more general way to create personal identification information "(Zemon Davis, VII)

• Natalie Zemon Davis (NZD) is a professor of honor history at Princeton University and currently belongs to the University of Toronto. Her publications include The Martin of Guerre (1983) and Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision (2000). Davis also served as a historical consultant for the 1982 France movie "Le Retour de Martin Gale". She is currently completing a book on a fourth-generation slave family in Suriname's Dutch colony. • Susan Eva O'Donovan (SEO) is an associate professor at the Department of History at Memphis University and an excellent lecturer from American historians. She has been an editor for the freedom and southern social project of the University of Maryland for many years. Her research focuses on the work of men and women in slavery and the political life of slaves. She is the author of "Southern Cotton Beedom Freedom" (2007) and is currently investigating the political life of slavery.