Books: Shadows that hide the hero - The Death of Jean Moulin: biography of a ghost by Patrick Marnham John Murray, pounds 20, 290pp Every French schoolchild knows about Jean Moulin, Resistance martyr. But who was he, and how did he die? By Euan Cameron

The Independent - London | June 17, 2000| | Copyright

In the darkest days of the Second World War, Jean Moulin was the man chosen by Charles de Gaulle to be the political head of the Resistance movement. In June 1943 he was arrested in a suburb of Lyon, tortured by the local Gestapo under the orders of Klaus Barbie, and presumably murdered. In December 1964, in Paris, his ashes were deposited in the Pantheon; in a moving ceremony Andre Malraux paid tribute to "the leader of a people of the night". He was consecrated as a national hero - a key element in de Gaulle's process of national reconciliation - and became a revered cornerstone in the myth ...

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