http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/09/16/1560-arnaud-du-tilh-return-of-martin-guerre/ Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:45:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/09/16/1560-arnaud-du-tilh-return-of-martin-guerre/#comment-13910 ExecutedToday.com » 1673: Mary Carleton, “German princess” Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:35:45 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=393#comment-13910 [...] is nearly the anti-Martin Guerre: whereas the male Arnaud du Tilh subsumed his own identity to insinuate himself into the existing [...] [...] is nearly the anti-Martin Guerre: whereas the male Arnaud du Tilh subsumed his own identity to insinuate himself into the existing [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/09/16/1560-arnaud-du-tilh-return-of-martin-guerre/#comment-11516 ExecutedToday.com » 1402: False Olaf Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:21:44 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=393#comment-11516 [...] spitting image was recognized, and hailed as the prince of the realm … well, back in the day, equally audacious identity theft was attempted for much smaller stakes than a [...] [...] spitting image was recognized, and hailed as the prince of the realm … well, back in the day, equally audacious identity theft was attempted for much smaller stakes than a [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/09/16/1560-arnaud-du-tilh-return-of-martin-guerre/#comment-2684 ExecutedToday.com » 1780: David Dawson and Ralph Morden, Quaker “traitors” Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:35:03 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=393#comment-2684 [...] Since we are students of the morbid here, let us also pause to notice the strikingly throwback nature of the punishment — not merely the fact that the Dawson-Chamberlain hanging was public, but that they were so theatrically marched to it, with ropes drawn about necks like the false Martin Guerre. [...] [...] Since we are students of the morbid here, let us also pause to notice the strikingly throwback nature of the punishment — not merely the fact that the Dawson-Chamberlain hanging was public, but that they were so theatrically marched to it, with ropes drawn about necks like the false Martin Guerre. [...]

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