Moulin, Jean (1899–1943)

French Resistance leader. A government prefect at the outbreak of World War II, he joined General de Gaulle in London in September 1941. He returned to France and, under his code-name Max, played a crucial role in securing the French internal resistance's loyalty to de Gaulle's leadership and unifying it under the National Committee of the Resistance in 1943. Captured in June 1943, and interrogated by the Gestapo officer Klaus Barbie at his Lyon headquarters, Moulin died under torture. His body was reinterred in the Panthéon in 1964.