Jean moulin en français
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Jean Moulin - Alliance Francaise
Jean Moulin: a visitor to 1 Dorset Square
2013 was the 70th anniversary of the death of Jean Moulin, hero of the Résistance, but it was also 70 years since his greatest triumph. On 27 May 1943, the inaugural meeting of the Conseil National de la Résistance took place in occupied Paris, largely thanks to Moulin’s work.
Born in Béziers in 1899, Jean Moulin had grown up wanting to be an artist, but for practical reasons he turned to politics. In 1938 he joined the Aveyron prefecture as France’s youngest prefect. The young man still kept up his artwork throughout his political career, publishing his political caricatures under the pseudonym Romanin. A fine example of his watercolour work can be seen below, a painting of his red-tiled mas in Provence.
When war broke out, Moulin was determined to fight and immediately enlisted, however he was such a trusted administrative figure that he was ordered to return to his post in the Eure-et-Loir. When France was invaded, Moulin stayed in his post and did all he could to assist the refugees flocki
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Jean Moulin (1899 - 1943)
Jean Moulin ©Moulin was a hero of the French Resistance in World War Two who united the scattered elements of spontaneous French partisan activity against German occupation.
Jean Moulin was born on 20 June 1899 in Beziers, south west France, the son of a history professor. He enlisted in the army in 1918 but never saw action. After World War One, Moulin joined the civil service and rose rapidly to become prefect, or regional administrator, of Chartres, the youngest holder of the office in France
Moulin's politics were of the extreme left, and it was no surprise when, in June 1940, he was arrested by the occupying Gestapo and tortured as a suspected communist. Moulin tried to commit suicide by cutting his own throat but a guard found him and he was taken to hospital, where he recovered. By November 1940, the Vichy government ordered all elected left-wing officials to be sacked. Moulin, now recovered, refused to sack anyone and was himself dismissed from his post. From then on he devoted his life to resisting the Germans. In September 1941, he wa
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Jean Moulin
For 23 years Jean Moulin, born into a republican, radical family in the south of France, served the Republic as a sub-prefect and prefect, except for a stint as Air Minister Pierre Cot's chief of staff during the Popular Front (1936), when, already determined to defend his country against Nazism and Fascism, he was involved in sending covert aid to Republican Spain. At the outbreak of war Moulin unsuccessfully tried to join the Air Force, but interior minister Albert Sarraut had no intention of losing one of his best prefects.
Moulin's first act of resistance took place in Chartres on 17 June 1940-he had been the prefect of Eure-et-Loir since January 1939-when he refused to sign a document drafted by the Germans falsely accusing Senegalese troops in the French Army of massacring civilians. Fearful of breaking under torture, he tried to kill himself. The affair was hushed up but Moulin managed to protect civilians from German atrocities. On 2 November 1940 the Vichy government dismissed the left-leaning, faithful servant of the Republic, who moved to Sain
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