Buy JEAN MOULIN : ARTISTE, PRÉFET, RÉSISTANT

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"I didn't know it was so easy to do your duty when you are in danger." - Jean Moulin -

Who was Jean Moulin really? In the memory of the French, Jean Moulin is the hero par excellence. Unifier of the resistance, personal representative of General de Gaulle in occupied France, Jean Moulin carried out his mission to the point of sacrificing his life.

Beyond the clichés, thanks to this richly illustrated album, we discover a Jean Moulin attached to his native Provence, a sportsman, a lover of life and women, gifted with a beautiful pencil stroke and an art dealer. Supported by more than a hundred photos, letters, documents, drawings and paintings, shown here for the first time, the singular itinerary of a republican, senior civil servant, man of the left, prefect, and from June 1940 onwards, a fierce opponent of the Nazi occupier, emerges.

An intimate Jean Moulin is revealed to us.

"It is the raison d'être of this book to breathe life into this prestigious name thanks to the contribution of collections previously kept within the family and which I had the privilege of consulting for my work on the man for whom I was secretary for eighteen months. - Daniel Cordier -

"On June 17, 1940, spared by death, the patriot that he was became an irreducible opponent of the Nazi occupier and turned into a rebel. - Jean-Pierre Azéma - 

Christine LEVISSE-TOUZÉ is director of the Museum of General Leclerc de Hauteclocque and the Liberation of Paris and the Jean Moulin Museum (Paris Musées). Director of research at Paris IV, she is the author of numerous works on the Second World War and has notably collaborated on the Dictionnaire Historique de la Résistance.

Dominique VEILLON is director of research at the CNRS and a member of the Scientific Council of the Museum of General Leclerc de Hauteclocque and the Liberation of Paris and the Jean Moulin Museum. She is the author of numerous works on the Second World War.

Daniel CORDIER was Jean Moulin's secretary. He published Alias Caracalla (2009 Resistance literary prize).

Jean-Pierre AZÉMA, a historian specialising in the Second World War, is the author of numerous works, including Jean Moulin: le politique, le rebelle, le résistant.