Loïc Le Ribault (Vannes, 1947 – Saint-Malo, 2007) founded exoscopy, created France's first private forensic laboratory and devoted his second life to organic silicon. This is his story, told through his documents, his photographs and his books.
Memoirs of a Defiant Scientist
Geneva, November 21, 2003, 8:25 in the morning. Four armed police officers knock on the door of a hotel room. The man who opens it is not a terrorist. He is the scientist who taught the French gendarmerie how to read a crime scene.
82 true cases of forensic science and dark humor
A dinner party among friends. One guest cancels at the last minute and the hostess, superstitious to the bone, realizes with horror that they will be thirteen at table. Rather than spoil the evening, they decide to invite the first stranger to walk past the door.
“Patients would rather be cured illegally than suffer or die within the law.”
Therapeutic freedom: everyone's right to choose how they are treated. The idea for which Loïc Le Ribault knew prison and exile.
Read →From the sand of Saint-Jacut to the electron microscope and the crime scene.
The years outside France, with his photographs and galleries.
The story of the discovery, from Norbert Duffaut to Loïc Le Ribault.
His scientific work and the press cuttings of the time.
“The advantage of having been labeled an outlaw is that afterward you glide above the law.”
Loïc Le Ribault, 14 July 1998
New editions, archive documents and events around the work of Loïc Le Ribault.