Son et Lumière - Béziers
6 – Jean Moulin Jean Moulin - born in Béziers on the 20th of June 1899 – who became the youngest “Préfet” - Senior administrator of a French Regional Department.
During his time as Préfet in Chartres, he resisted the Nazi forces.
He then became a high-profile member of the resistance movement. He covered his tracks by opening an Art Gallery in Nices, where he showed many of his own works.
Remembered today as an emblem of the Resistance - representing General de Gaulle, leader of the free French in London, who charges him with two missions: 1 : To control the military forces of the southern zone resistance movement. 2 : To unify all the movements under de Gaulle's authority.
On the 21st of June 1943 he was arrested at Caluire (Lyon), he died after torture by the notorious Nazi Klaus Barbie, known as the "Butcher of Lyon", on the 8th July in a Northern French railway station
| Région: | Languedoc-Roussillon |
| Département: | Hérault |
| Commune: | Béziers |
| Photographer: | Malcolm Reynard - personal website |
The Film of the Spirit of Resistance
