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The Would-Be Commoner: A Tale of Deception, Murder, and Justice in Seventeenth-Century France Hardcover – July 10, 2008

by Jeffrey Ravel (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition (July 10, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0618197311
  • ISBN-13: 978-0618197316
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #682,245 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsA Tale Well-Told
By G. Miller on November 3, 2008
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Mystery lovers will be delighted; history lovers will be entranced; lovers of fine writing will be pleased and people who just want a good story will be satisfied. Ravel takes a puzzling event from the waning days of the 17th century and with a patient and careful eye examines not only the evidence but the implications of the evidence which prove to be more far-reaching than you might first suppose. Unlike historic fiction, where heroes and heroines hold the stage, here we meet ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances acting in very human but puzzlling ways. What seems an unlikely story becomes very human and believable, and suggests truth about ourselves as well. Ravel's masterful writing, his presentation of the "facts", his sympathetic eye for all the people he describes combine with his historian's commitment to fairness and impartiality to give us a glimpse of a foreign place and time so real we put the book down thinking "yes, I was there; that's exactly how it happened." Try this book, you'll be glad you did.
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5.0 out of 5 starsBought on a whim
By Anna G on June 11, 2013
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but who knew it would be soooo good. In the beginning I thought this was a historical novel and there are some suppositions made, but it turns out this book is factual. Wow, what a story.
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat story
By Reader on February 27, 2014
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This is a great work of historical investigation and a compelling read at the same time. Why would a petty nobleman from the provinces leave behind his marriage and, still more strangely, the (admittedly meagre) privileges of his class, and assume the identity of a teenaged innkeeper's husband? Was or wasn't the aforesaid nobleman murdered by his disgruntled first wife, with the aid of her lover, after she found out about his bigamy?

But the book isn't just a murder mystery, or the story of the occasional eccentric aristocrat --- it is also a fascinating study of Old Regime France's criminal procedure, of the evolution of legal thought and theory, and of the ways in which identity could be shed, assumed, and proved in an age long before photography, DNA and fingerprints.

Recommended!
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Scary but super!
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