The Return of Martin Guerre is a great book

"It is a measure of Natalie Zemon Davis’s influence as a historian that most people would struggle to name more than a handful of Renaissance monarchs, but a good many have heard of an obscure 16th-century French peasant called Martin Guerre."

https://www.ft.com/content/7a130861-36ea-4247-a3a9-8750335ba0db