The traces of history

A history professor at Princeton University, Natalie Zemon-Davis is a specialist in the social and cultural history of France in the 16th and 17th centuries. Her work, which deals as much with the return of Martin Guerre as the history of women, is based on the particular art of questioning the past of individuals that she endeavours to draw out of forgetfulness. A meeting with a historian whose work has inspired one of Wajdi Mouawad's upcoming works.

With Nathalie Zemon-Davis historian