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Jean Moulin ( French: [ʒɑ̃ mu.lɛ̃]; 20 June 1899 – 8 July 1943) was a French civil servant and resistant who succeeded in unifying the main networks of the French Resistance, a unique act in Europe.
Jul 28, 2013 · When Jean Moulin offered his services to Gen. Charles de Gaulle in October 1941, the leader of the Free French based in London accepted with alacrity. Moulin, a former prefect (regional administrator), was the highest-ranking member of the pre-Vichy Third Republic to join de Gaulle’s organization.
Jul 4, 2024 · Jean Moulin (born June 20, 1899, Béziers, Fr.—died July 8, 1943, Metz, Ger. [now in France]) was a French civil servant and hero of the Résistance during World War II. After studying law at Montpellier, Moulin entered the civil service.
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...
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 ...
Jul 4, 2023 · Jean Moulin was one of the many French Resistance fighters who stood up to the Germans during the occupation of France in World War II. A true symbol of the...
In office in Eure-et-Loire at the time, Jean Moulin was at the center of the collapse of France. He saw the mass of refugees on the roads of exodus and tried to help them. On June 17, 1940, he met the conquering Germans in Chartres. Tortured by the occupier to extort his signature, Moulin preferred suicide to dishonor.
Jan 27, 2012 · Raymond Aubrac, 97, is France's last survivor from the senior ranks of the wartime Resistance. He tells Hugh Schofield the story of how he first met the Resistance leader Jean Moulin. In 1942...
Jan 1, 2015 · Who was the enigmatic Jean Moulin, a man as skilled in deception as he was in acts of heroism? The memory of this French Resistance hero, who was betrayed to the Gestapo and tortured by Klaus Barbie, the infamous'Butcher of Lyon', is revered alongside that of other national icons.
French patriot and leader of the French Resistance. In 1943, acting on the authority of General Charles de Gaulle, Jean Moulin organized and coordinated the various resistance groups inside France. After being arrested on 21 June 1943 he did not survive tortures inflicted on him on orders of Klaus Barbie, the head of the Gestapo in Lyon, France.
