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The Return of Martin Guerre
The return of Martin Guerre
Martin Guerre’s family under his father Sanxi, and uncle Pierre, move from Hendaye, in Basque county to Artigate, it took them three day walk to get there the reason they left their home because of the continual threat of warfare in the region between France and Spain, the armies passing through the area and ravaging the neighborhood; the Basque country and Navarre were long source of dispute between two neighbor country.
At the age of fourteen martin married to Bertrande de Rols, she was ten years old. This was an arranged marriage intended to secure various social and economic benefits for both families, it looks like normal at the Middle Ages that this for a young man married a young women but it’s probably the source of the problem they had in their Marriage they weren’t committed to their marriage.
Bertrande life is kind of complicated she got married in her early age and for eight years she raised her son, lived, worked, and waited, neither a widow nor a wife. Under Catholic Church low she cannot end her marriage or and remarry, the only option is weather to fabricate false evidence of her husband’s death or to wait her disappeared husband.
Even after they had a baby his friends are still messing around him about his sexual relation with his wife that pushed him to travel around the cities to get some freedom and shortly he disappeared from the village because his father accused of him in stealing some grain and he became a soldier for Spain and fight at the battle of Picardy between France and Spain and he got shot in his leg.
Let’s see how Aranaud background to Discuss the reason why he Aranaud able to convince the whole family including Bertrade .He used to pretending to be other people even in his hometown to facilitate various adventure he may get to do things like impersonate nobleman in order to impress ladies and he grow in dissolute sexual adventure and youth group his experience

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