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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Jean Moulin 1899-1943 The French Resistance and the Republic by Alan Clinton Jean Moulin 1899-1943: The French Resistance and the Republic by Alan Clinton. Our systems have detected unusual traffic activity from your network. Please complete this reCAPTCHA to demonstrate that it's you making the requests and not a robot. If you are having trouble seeing or completing this challenge, this page may help. If you continue to experience issues, you can contact JSTOR support. Block Reference: #a32fec40-cfb1-11eb-937b-fb57cc615e3b VID: #(null) IP: 116.202.236.252 Date and time: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 21:19:01 GMT. Alan Clinton. Alan Clinton, who has died of cancer aged 61, had a long career as a politician on London's Islington council, and served as its leader for three years. His commitment to Islington was combined with his work as an academic and labour historian. Born in Dublin, Alan came to England with his family when he was 11. He was one of the first pupils from Xaverian College, Manchester, to gain a place at Oxford, where he read history at Merton College. Already a member of the Labour party, Alan began to be actively involved in politics at Oxford. He joined, and left, several leftwing, often Trotskyist, groups and sects; he was also involved in linking students with trade unionists at Cowley car plants. Alan gained his PhD at Chelsea College, University of London, researching trades council activity under Ralph Miliband. His main intellectual interest was industrial relations, and his book, The Trade Union Rank And File: Trades Councils in Britain 1900-1940 (1977) on the political dynamics between workers and trade union leaders, established his reputation as a serious historian. In the 1980s, he wrote books on printed ephemera, libraries, unions, housing and safety at work. His massively comprehensive Post Office Workers: A Trade Union And Social History (1984) became a model for the understanding of public sector unions. During the 1970s, Alan was instrumental in setting up the Workers' Socialist League and he devoted much time to writing and campaigning for it. But he decided he would be better able to bring about the kind of social change that he longed for from within the Labour party. In 1982, he was elected to Islington council and almost immediately became chief whip; in 1986, he became deputy leader to Margaret Hodge. He was a councillor for 20 years. The Islington Labour group was faction-ridden, and energy was sometimes dissipated in internal disputes, but Alan strove to maintain services in the face of rate-capping and the unhelpful attitude of the Thatcher government. He became leader of the council in 1994; he fought to improve the quality of services and win resources for urban development and regeneration. The modernisation of King's Cross was one of his major projects. After losing the leadership in 1997, he became chair of finance and put his energies into reining in expenditure to bring about the first reductions in Islington council's tax burden. Alan's determination to respond to the many political demands of his office prevented him from becoming a permanent member of the academic establishment. He had temporary posts at Leeds University, the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Imperial College, South Bank Polytechnic, the Institute of Housing, the Irish Studies Centre, and North London Polytechnic. In 1988, he took more permanent employment as a history lecturer at Bristol Polytechnic (subsequently the University of the West of England). There he developed his interest in modern French history. Trying to combine lecturing and researching at Bristol with his work on the council, especially after he became leader, took its toll and, in 1997, he retired early. He was still determined to complete a book on a key French figure - Jean Moulin, 1899-1943: The French Resistance And The Republic was published in 2001, and represented Alan's greatest intellectual achievement. He next begun to work for the Open University in 1973, and after leaving Bristol, tutored additional courses, most importantly the MA in historical studies. Alan, who befriended many with his warmth and laughter, showed the same care and commitment to his Open University students as he had to the residents of his ward in Islington. He was married twice. He is survived by his partner, Alison Appleby, who cared for him during his illness. · Alan Michael Clinton, historian and politician, born June 8 1943; died January 10 2005. Jean Moulin, 1899 - 1943. Jean Moulin is a universally recognized French hero, celebrated as the delegate of General de Gaulle to Nazi-occupied France in 1942-3 and founder of the National Resistance Council in May 1943. He is known for defiance of the German invaders in June 1940 and for his death in the hands of Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie in July 1943. This book is the fist fully documented account in English of his republican background, his resistance activities, and of his death and reputation. …mehr. Jean Moulin. Jean Moulin (20 June 1899 – 8 July 1943) was a high-profile member of the French Resistance during World War II. [ 1 ] He is remembered today as an emblem of the Resistance, owing mainly to his role in unifying the French resistance under de Gaulle and his courage and death at the hands of the Gestapo. Contents. Before the war. Moulin was born in Béziers, France, and enlisted in the French Army in 1918. After World War I, he resumed his studies and obtained a degree in law in 1921. He then entered the prefectural administration as chef de cabinet to the deputy of Savoie in 1922, then as sous-préfet of Albertville, from 1925 to 1930. He was France's youngest sous-préfet at the time. He married Marguerite Cerruti in September 1926, but the couple divorced in 1928. In 1930, he was the sous-préfet of Châteaulin, Brittany. During that time, he also drew political cartoons in the newspaper Le Rire under the pseudonym Romanin . He also became an illustrator for the Breton poet Tristan Corbière's books; among other works he made an etching for La Pastorale de Conlie , Corbière's poem about the camp of Conlie where many Breton soldiers died in 1870. He also made friends with the Breton poets Saint-Pol-Roux in Camaret and Max Jacob in Quimper. [ 2 ] He became France's youngest préfet in the Aveyron département , based in the commune of Rodez, in January 1937. Some claim that during the Spanish Civil War he supplied arms from the Soviet Union to Spain. A more commonly accepted version of events is that he supplied French planes to the Republican forces from his position in the aviation ministry. The Resistance. In 1939, Moulin was appointed préfet of the Eure-et-Loir département . The Germans arrested him in June 1940 because he refused to sign a German document that falsely blamed Senegalese French Army troops for civilian massacres. In prison, he attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a piece of broken glass. This left him with a scar that he would often hide with a scarf — the image of Jean Moulin remembered today. In November 1940, the Vichy government ordered all préfets to dismiss left-wing elected mayors of towns and villages. When Moulin refused, he was himself removed from office. He then lived in Saint-Andiol (Bouches-du-Rhône), and joined the French Resistance. Moulin reached London in September 1941 under the name Joseph Jean Mercier , and met General Charles de Gaulle, who asked him to unify the various resistance groups. On 1 January 1942, he parachuted into the Alpilles. Under the codenames Rex and Max , he met with the leaders of the resistance groups: ( Combat ) ( Libération ) ( Francs-tireurs ) ( Front national , not to be confused with the present-day far-right French political party Front national ) ( Comité d'action socialiste ) He succeeded to the extent that the first three of these resistance leaders and their groups came together to form the Mouvements Unis de la Résistance (M.U.R.) in January 1943. In February 1943, Moulin returned to London, accompanied by Charles Delestraint, head of the new Armée secrète which grouped together the M.U.R.'s military wings. He left London on 21 March 1943 with orders to form the Conseil national de la Résistance (CNR), a difficult task since the five resistance movements involved (beside the three already in the M.U.R.) wanted to retain their independence. The first meeting of the CNR took place in Paris on 27 May 1943. In his work in shepherding the Resistance, Moulin was aided by his private administrative assistant Laure Diebold. On 21 June 1943, Jean Moulin was arrested at a meeting with fellow Resistance leaders in the home of Doctor Frédéric Dugoujon in Caluire-et- Cuire, a suburb of Lyon. Moulin, Dugoujon, Henri Aubry (alias Avricourt and Thomas), Raymond Aubrac, Bruno Larat (alias Xavier-Laurent Parisot), André Lassagne (alias Lombard), Colonel Albert Lacaze, Colonel Emile Schwarzfeld (alias Blumstein) and René Hardy (alias Didot) were arrested. Interrogated extensively in Lyon by Klaus Barbie, head of the Gestapo there, and later more briefly in Paris, Moulin never revealed anything to his captors. He died near Metz while on a train in transit towards Germany. [ 3 ] The cause of death was injuries suffered either during torture or in a suicide attempt; Barbie alleged that suicide was the cause, and one Moulin biographer, Patrick Marnham, supports this explanation, though it is widely believed that Barbie personally beat Moulin to death. [ 4 ] Who betrayed Moulin? René Hardy was caught and released by the Gestapo, who had followed him to the meeting at the doctor's house.

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