Guillaume Le Sueur, like Jean de Coras, was also an eyewitness to the trial who wrote a published account of the story of Martin Guerre. Le Sueur’s book, Admiranda historia (1561), is mostly a straightforward news pamphlet, but it also draws a moral at the end. Davis argues that people like Le Sueur looked to the case to provide appropriate moral lessons for readers.
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Guillaume Le Sueur Character Timeline in The Return of Martin Guerre
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Chapter 10
After the trial, both Coras and another Toulouse lawyer, Guillaume Le Sueur , began writing their version of events. Le Sueur was a little-known author of some...
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Chapter 11
Le Sueur ’s book about the case, Admiranda historia (published in 1561) is a straightforward news pamphlet...
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...nature of proof, and social problems like child marriage and spousal abandonment. Both Coras and Le Sueur may have found that the story contained a Protestant message. They dedicated their books to...
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Chapter 12
Le Sueur ’s book followed what Davis calls the “expected path” of a news pamphlet—it became more...
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