“Jean Moulin lived here in the summer of 1942. » The brand new commemorative plaque has just been installed at the entrance to the building at 72 rue de la Charité (Lyon 2nd). It catches the eye of the passer-by and marks in stone the presence in this place of the hero of the Resistance in Lyon who, until his arrest in Caluire in June 1943, worked to unify the movements of the free zone.
The 1st floor apartment, with “the three windows on the left”
The anecdote is part of many history books. But Emmanuel Rey, the current owner of the room that Jean Moulin sublet at the time, only discovered it in 2019. And completely by chance.
While one of the occupants of the building gets annoyed at seeing entire classes of schoolchildren, middle schoolers and high school students lingering under his windows, several times a week, he ends up asking them why. And learns that they are there as part of memorial visits to Lyon and that Jean Moulin had lived in his…
2024-03-06 11:20:52
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