| JEAN | MOULIN |  |
| Important dates | ||
| 1899 | Jean Moulin is born in Béziers. | |
| 1918 | 18th April - Called up into the army. | |
| 1918 | 18th September - Sent to the front. | |
| 1921 | Joined the young republicans. | |
| 1926 | September - married Marguerite Cerruty, they divorced after just two years. | |
| 1932 | December - appointed chief assistant to the cabinet of Pierre Cot. | |
| 1936 | Became a partisan with a Spanish group who supported the USSR against Hitler's Germany. | |
| 1937 | Became Préfet of Rodez in the Aveyron, a position he held till 1939. | |
| 1940 | 18th June - Arrested, because he refused to sign a German document accusing French colonial troups of attrocities, then returned to the resistance. | |
| 1941 | 25th October - contacts de Gaulle in London, who charges him with two missions: 1). To control the military forces of the southern zone resistance movement. and 2). To unify all the movements under de Gaulle's authority. | |
| 1943 | 21st June - Arrested at Caluire, he died under torture the 8th July in a Northern French railway station. | |