Memorial Plate Jean Moulin

At this place the photo was taken of the person who was and still is the personification of the French resistance: Jean Moulin. The photograph was taken by his friend Marcel Bernard.

When the photo was taken - in the winter of 1939-1940 - at Aqueduct Saint Clement, near the Promenade du Peyrou in Montpellier, Jean Moulin was still Prefect of Eure-et-Loire.

The photo is still considered iconic in France and by experts on La Resistance and is still in use. For example, the photo was also used on 19 December 1964 at his ashes being scattered in the Pantheon in Paris and it features in many publications about the French resistance movement that Moulin managed to unite.

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Source

• Text: Jelle Ywema
• Photos: Jelle Ywema
• Musée de la Resistance 1940-1945 en ligne