Other microhistories have returned to events that generated extensive commentary at the time, yet even here the historians could generally claim to have rescued extraordinary material from undeserved obscurity. This was the case, most strikingly, with the “return of Martin Guerre,” the story mentioned above of the sixteenth-century Frenchman who took on another's identity, lived for a time with his wife, was discovered, tried and executed, and then largely forgotten until Natalie Zemon Davis retold the story in the 1980s. Similarly, Arlette Farge and Jacques Revel's Logiques de la foule reexamined a famous set of riots in mid-eighteenth-century Paris, subjecting the police dossiers to close readings so as to tease out the radical political implications of what appeared, on the surface, a panic over the alleged kidnapping of children by the police. Richard Kagan revisited the fascinating case of Lucrecia de Léon, controversially put on trial by the Inquisition in Toledo in the 1590s, after transcripts of her visionary dreams began to circulate widely in manuscript. John Demos sought a new perspective on the famous case of New Englanders taken as prisoners to Canada, highlighting not the famous preacher who returned to Massachusetts, but his daughter who remained “unredeemed,” eventually converting to Catholicism, marrying a Mohawk Indian, and refusing to return to her family