Abortionist and Adolf Hitler enthusiast, Dr. Paul-Emile Lalanne (1883-1951) was born into a well-to-do Montreal family of five kids.
He returned from studying in France in 1911 to open his own gynecology clinic at 1077 Sherbrooke East.
He would have been a bourgeois success story had it not been for his shockingly horrible political views.
Lalanne's political leanings were on full display at his 80,000 square foot private island near Valleyfield where he kept a house festooned with Swastikas and a big Hitler portrait hanging over the fireplace.
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How he got away with practicing abortions steadily for decades remains a mystery.
It appears that he was well-polished at conferring medical legitimacy on his abortions, leveraging his expertise and respectability to judge each one as medically necessary for the health of the pregnant woman.
He was charged twice with "performing an illegal operation" but acquitted both times.
Lalanne is such a juicy oddball that historian Huges Theoret says he spent over 15 years researching him.
One question, however, has gone overlooked.
What made Lalanne hate Jews to the point of giving a speech in Ottawa in 1935 entitled "Why we Should Oppose the Jew."
No journalist or historian, until Coolopolis, has undertaken any high-quality, reckless speculation about what made Lalanne such a Jew-hater.
One possible cause is a high-profile conflict he had with a Jewish family.
Daby Gross, 14, lived with her parents near the bottom of St. Dominique in 1920 when she was raped by a boy named Nicolo Angelo (also variously reported as Angelino and Angelico)
Angelo was arrested and jailed and Gross's parents brought her to Lalanne's clinic at 1077 Sherbrooke E. after another doctor refused to abort the child that the rapist had put inside of her.
Lalanne asked Daby's father Hyman Gross for $150 to perform the abortion but ultimately accepted to do it for $100.
Lalanne put the young girl under with chloroform but the operation did not go as planned and the teenager was forced to convalesce for 9 days at his clinic.
Hyman Gross - who had brought his family to Canada from England a decade early - wasn't too happy with the serious condition his daughter was in, so he brought Lalanne to a court deposition where he and his daughter Daby were both present along with Lalanne and Angelo, the rapist.
Lalanne was permitted to browbeat the young girl and accepted no blame for her damaged health.
"I saved her life. She is not dead yet. What this girl is dying from is your fault," said Lalanne who claimed that the girl was on drugs.
Her father admitted that she was on drugs, the many drugs that Lalanne himself had prescribed.
The judge at the deposition warned Lalanne about touching the girl during the inquisition.
"You have the right to ask questions but not to make speeches. You can question that girl but do not touch her."
Poor Daby Gross, after being raped and medically maltreated and then finally browbeaten in court, died of septic shock at the Royal Victoria Hotel on Oct. 12, 1920 and The Crown charged Lalanne with manslaughter and performing an illegal operation.
Lalanne was acquitted of all charges one month later and continued in his medical career for decades longer.
He went on to give much of his money to fund Adrien Arcand's various Jewish-hating publications.
He returned from studying in France in 1911 to open his own gynecology clinic at 1077 Sherbrooke East.
He would have been a bourgeois success story had it not been for his shockingly horrible political views.
Lalanne's political leanings were on full display at his 80,000 square foot private island near Valleyfield where he kept a house festooned with Swastikas and a big Hitler portrait hanging over the fireplace.
How he got away with practicing abortions steadily for decades remains a mystery.It appears that he was well-polished at conferring medical legitimacy on his abortions, leveraging his expertise and respectability to judge each one as medically necessary for the health of the pregnant woman.
He was charged twice with "performing an illegal operation" but acquitted both times.
Lalanne is such a juicy oddball that historian Huges Theoret says he spent over 15 years researching him.
One question, however, has gone overlooked.
What made Lalanne hate Jews to the point of giving a speech in Ottawa in 1935 entitled "Why we Should Oppose the Jew."
No journalist or historian, until Coolopolis, has undertaken any high-quality, reckless speculation about what made Lalanne such a Jew-hater.
One possible cause is a high-profile conflict he had with a Jewish family.
Daby Gross, 14, lived with her parents near the bottom of St. Dominique in 1920 when she was raped by a boy named Nicolo Angelo (also variously reported as Angelino and Angelico)
Angelo was arrested and jailed and Gross's parents brought her to Lalanne's clinic at 1077 Sherbrooke E. after another doctor refused to abort the child that the rapist had put inside of her.
Lalanne asked Daby's father Hyman Gross for $150 to perform the abortion but ultimately accepted to do it for $100.
Lalanne put the young girl under with chloroform but the operation did not go as planned and the teenager was forced to convalesce for 9 days at his clinic.
Hyman Gross - who had brought his family to Canada from England a decade early - wasn't too happy with the serious condition his daughter was in, so he brought Lalanne to a court deposition where he and his daughter Daby were both present along with Lalanne and Angelo, the rapist.
Lalanne was permitted to browbeat the young girl and accepted no blame for her damaged health.
"I saved her life. She is not dead yet. What this girl is dying from is your fault," said Lalanne who claimed that the girl was on drugs.
Her father admitted that she was on drugs, the many drugs that Lalanne himself had prescribed.
The judge at the deposition warned Lalanne about touching the girl during the inquisition.
"You have the right to ask questions but not to make speeches. You can question that girl but do not touch her."
Poor Daby Gross, after being raped and medically maltreated and then finally browbeaten in court, died of septic shock at the Royal Victoria Hotel on Oct. 12, 1920 and The Crown charged Lalanne with manslaughter and performing an illegal operation.
Lalanne was acquitted of all charges one month later and continued in his medical career for decades longer.
He went on to give much of his money to fund Adrien Arcand's various Jewish-hating publications.