France 100 Francs Silver coin 1993 Jean Moulin
Commemorative issue: 50th Anniversary of the National Resistance Movement
Obverse: Bust of Jean Moulin based on iconic photo with hat and scarf, cross of Lorraine in background.
Jean Moulin (20 June 1899 – 8 July 1943) was a high-profile member of the Resistance in France during World War II. 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.
Lettering: REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE 1993 JEAN MOULIN.
Reverse: Flaming torch, denomination below. Date of the first meeting of the National Council of the Resistance (Conseil National de la Résistance), took place in Paris on 27 May 1943.
Lettering: CONSEIL NATIONAL DE LA RÉSISTANCE 27 MAI 1943 100 F.
Composition: Silver.
Fineness: 0.900.
Weight: 22.2 g.
ASW: 0.6423 oz.
Jean Moulin
Jean Moulin (born June 20, 1899, Béziers, France — died July 8, 1943, Metz, Germany [now in France]), French civil servant and hero of the Résistance during World War II.
After studying law at Montpellier, Moulin entered the civil service. In 1930 he became the youngest subprefect (in charge of an arrondissement) and in 1937 the youngest prefect (of the Eure-et-Loir département) in all of France. When the Germans occupied his département in 1940, he refused to sign a document describing atrocities alleged to have been committed by the French army and tried to commit suicide.
After being removed from his prefecture, he joined the Résistance and escaped to England. He returned to France in January 1942 as General Charles de Gaulle’s delegate general for the unoccupied zone. He played a leading part in the organization of the Maquis (French guerrillas who fought the Germans) and in the development of the National Council of the Résistance, which coordinated all the noncommunist resistance groups in France and secured their loyalty to de Gaulle’s Free French movement. Moulin became the first chairman of this council in May 1943. His organizational abilities and political skills made him a legendary figure. In June 1943, however, the Gestapo arrested him at Caluire, near Lyon. Tortured in one prison after another, he died in a train taking him to Germany.