Jean Moulin: uniting the French resistance

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Jean Moulin was a French civil servant who served as the first President of the National Council of the Resistance from 23rd May 1943 until his death less than two months later. Prior to this important role he had been a Prefect in Aveyron and Eure-et-Loir. He is remembered today as one of the main heroes of the French Resistance, helping to unify it under the leadership Charles de Gaulle who he visited secretly in London. Back in France in the Lyon area he was betrayed and captured by the Gestapo. He was tortured by German officer Klaus Barbie while in custody and is believed to have died in a train that transported him to Germany.