Montaigne & Martin Guerre

Dans son essai 'Des boîteux', Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) dit avoir lu le récit de Jean de Coras dans dans sa jeunesse. Voici la traduction anglaise de ce que Montaigne a retenu de l'affaire:

I read in my younger years a trial that Corras, a councillor of Toulouse, printed, of a strange incident, of two men whopresented themselves the one for the other. I remember (and I hardlyremember anything else) that he seemed to have rendered the imposture ofhim whom he judged to be guilty, so wonderful and so far exceeding bothour knowledge and his own, who was the judge, that I thought it a verybold sentence that condemned him to be hanged.

source: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/5/9/3598/3598.txt