Close aide to French Resistance fighter Jean Moulin celebrates 100th birthday Daniel Cordier is one of only four still alive known as the Companions of the Liberation, working to free France from ...

Jean Moulin was a French Impressionist & Modern artist who was born in 1899. Jean Moulin's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 11 USD to 28,603 USD, ...

On New Year’s Day 1942, a former government official named Jean Moulin parachuted into Nazi-occupied France on the orders of General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French movement.

French president Emmanuel Macron will attend a ceremony at Montluc prison in Lyon on Monday afternoon to pay tribute to the French Resistance and to Jean Moulin, one of its most celebrated leaders ...

Jean Moulin has been called the greatest hero of the French Resistance. But it was 21 years after his death in German hands and 20 years after the liberation of Paris that he was so proclaimed.

Daniel Cordier, French Resistance Hero, Is Dead at 100 He parachuted into occupied France and became an assistant to the legendary Jean Moulin, though only later did he learn Moulin’s true identity.

"I admired Jean Moulin from the moment I first saw him," Cordier told the BBC. "He had an elegance and a kindness, and also a huge capacity for work. In his view, he was the Resistance.

He tells Hugh Schofield the story of how he first met the Resistance leader Jean Moulin. In 1942 Moulin was sent by General de Gaulle to organise the anti-German underground.

Before the war Jean Moulin, a senior civil servant, had been an amateur artist and aesthete, and Cordier’s interest in modern art had been awakened by his commander, who in May 1943 took him to ...