Titlebook: Jean Moulin, 1899 - 1943; The French Resistanc Alan Clinton Book 2002 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2002 b

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,War and the First Resistance, 1939–40, already decided: to construct a united opposition to the occupation of his country. He devoted himself to contacting others of like mind, and in October 1941 he travelled to London to meet another element of an alternative France, represented by Charles de Gaulle.

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,Mission Rex, 1942–3, that, standing above the activists, he tried to ensure ‘a well ordered resistance developed methodically’. During 1942 and 1943, ‘Rex’ was everywhere in France, meeting leaders and activists, setting up new organisations of every sort, arranging meetings, helping to initiate demonstrations and publications, and preparing for military activity.

Resection

,The Tragedy of Caluire – and After,at least two executions. Numerous publications have appeared, some of which have included charges of bad faith and conspiracy theories at almost every level of implausibility. Yet, as one of the best historians of the resistance has put it, the most reasonable explanation of what happened may simply be human error and ‘cruel chance’.

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,A Republican Upbringing, 1899–1919,re because of his attachment to the Republic’. Even if the truth was more complicated, he insisted on referring to this lineage in public statements made when he was a servant of the French state. Not only that, he stoutly maintained it as a badge of honour when interviewed by the British Secret Service.

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,From Resister to Resistance, 1940–1,se outside France who had raised the standard of revolt. He soon found some of those who wanted to ‘do something’ in France itself, and then took it upon himself to contact the disparate elements of opposition to collaboration. He thought the way to do this was to operate with, but not for, the British, and to work for unity under de Gaulle.

含糊其辞

The National Resistance Council, May 1943,n considered in retrospect as the cardinal wartime event in the continuity of the French state and its Republic, and the crowning achievement of Jean Moulin. Less often recalled was its complex genesis and painful birth, which it is the purpose of this chapter to describe.

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Book 2002the National Resistance Council in May 1943. He is known for defiance of the German invaders in June 1940 and for his death in the hands of Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie in July 1943. This book is the fist fully documented account in English of his republican background, his resistance activities, and