Legend of St. Yves

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The legend of St. Yves is not widely known, even though he is the patron saint of lawyers. In this informative account, author Bryan Gibson places St. Yves born Erwan Helouri on a par with Robin Hood, Jessie James, and Ned Kelly in terms of an appeal to various national psyches, and alongside Joan of Arc and Bernadette of Lourdes with regard to his native France. But while conventional outlaws used bows, arrows, six-guns, and bullets to 'rob the rich to help the poor, ' St. Yves challenged poverty and social inequality, which he saw in many prosecutions or claims via argument, debate, reason, and consensus. At a time when bribery and corruption was rife, St. Yves waged an historic struggle to enhance the fairness of proceedings and their outcomes. Hailing St. Yves as an icon of justice, counseling, mediation, and reform, Gibson explains why Erwan Helouri deserves to be known better, particularly for the values of decency, integrity, and ethics he included in his approach to resolvin