diff --git a/Doc/lib/liblogging.tex b/Doc/lib/liblogging.tex
index af46afb..c86596d 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/liblogging.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/liblogging.tex
@@ -808,7 +808,7 @@
 which can be interpreted by either a human or an external system. The
 base
 \class{Formatter} allows a formatting string to be specified. If none is
-supplied, the default value of \code{'\%(message)s\e'} is used.
+supplied, the default value of \code{'\%(message)s'} is used.
 
 A Formatter can be initialized with a format string which makes use of
 knowledge of the \class{LogRecord} attributes - such as the default value