[Laennec's father and slavery].
In the legend which grows about Laennec, and also in the remote remembrance preserved in his family, the fame of his father Théophile-Marie remained very unfavorable, appearing to have been a light-headed man unable to do anything. However the studies of Madame Le Douget, magistrate in Quimper, show nevertheless a courageous and efficient judge, opponent to the social plague which was the slavery of black peoples, during a process before the court of justice of Admiralty after a shipwreck. It is the story of this episode concluding to a sort of rehabilitation that we have related in these pages.
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A propos de la lutte contre l'esclavage un magistrat courageux trop méconnu: le père de Laennec.