Story of a court case in mid th century France Janet Lewis depicts a distant time and a traditional rural culture based on a highly ordered patriarchal structure When Martin Guerre returns from a uest after eight years the family embraces him and Bertrande is swept up in the relief at the apparent return to the security of the old order But Martin has changed and Bertrande threatens the established order with her defiant uest for the.
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