SOURCE: Moote, A. Lloyd. Review of The Return of Martin Guerre, by Natalie Z. Davis. American Historical Review 90, no. 4 (October 1985): 943.

In the following review, Moote suggests that The Return of Martin Guerre provides answers to questions raised by the film version of Guerre's story.

It is a fitting tribute to a leading American social historian of early modern France that she has helped shape a French film version [Le Retour de Martin Guerre] of, as well as written a monograph on, the celebrated sixteenth-century story of Martin Guerre. Moviegoers can turn to Natalie Zemon Davis's book [The Return of Martin Guerre] for answers to many questions the film avoided about the strange case of Arnaud du Tilh, adventurer, reprobate, and ex-soldier for France: how he masqueraded for three years as Martin Guerre—misfit, wife deserter, and soldier for the Spanish side—and supposedly returned from the Franco-Spanish wars...