A Fool and His Money : Life in a Partitioned Town in Fourteenth-Century France
                        
                     
                                            
                            
                                                                by Ann Wroe
                                                                
                                    2020-05-06 02:26:33
                                
                                
                             
                         
                                     
                
                    A Fool and His Money : Life in a Partitioned Town in Fourteenth-Century France
                                            
                                                            by Ann Wroe
                                                        
                                2020-05-06 02:26:33
                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                                                A pot of gold is found in a drain in a town in southwestern France during the Hundred Years War. Does the money belong to the man who claims it, or to his befuddled father-in-law? The case of the missing coins allows Ann Wroe to investigate in detail...
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                                                A pot of gold is found in a drain in a town in southwestern France during the Hundred Years War. Does the money belong to the man who claims it, or to his befuddled father-in-law? The case of the missing coins allows Ann Wroe to investigate in detail, and through particular people, what life was like in a fourteenth-century community that was physically partitioned (as so many are today) between rival political factions. The people in her story must deal with everyday problems of competence and conscience, and they do so humorously and poignantly against a background of mutual prejudice, threatening authorities, and war.
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