Word and Action, by Henri Leclerc

Richard Roman, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Véronique Courjault: Henri Leclerc, one of the greatest criminal lawyers of the ^20th century, did his best to “ defend them all ”, in the words of his mentor, Albert Naud. After sixty years of career, he delivers his memoirs and retraces more than half a century of legal, political and ethical battles, carried out with the force of the word, with the eloquence of the passionate orator and the rigor of the jurist, in company of other tenors of the bar, Vergès, Levy, Pelletier, Lemaire, Badinter.
The Algerian war, May 1968, the abolition of the death penalty, the defense of minors and peasants, the migration issue, terrorism, Speech and action is also, in a way, a story France after the Second World War, told by a committed protagonist, often on the front line, an iconoclastic lawyer and convinced left-wing activist, long close to Michel Rocard and member of the Human Rights League.
With the tenderness, the humor and the verve that we know him, Henri Leclerc immerses himself in his exemplary itinerary and returns to cases that still fascinate today, meditating on the meaning of his commitment and on the struggles to be waged tomorrow. .