“Your heroic brother was, par excellence, my good companion and my friend”: this dear letter from Charles-de-Gaulle addressed to Laure Moulin who escaped from the City of Béziers

La fameuse lettre s’est vendue 20 000 euros ! Midi Libre – M. A.

This Tuesday, December 17, during the Artcurial sale of Charles de Gaulle's property, a two-page letter from the statesman addressed to Laure Moulin, sister of Jean Moulin, had attracted the covetousness of the City of Béziers. Unfortunately, the community was unable to match the prices that soared…

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“This is a letter from Charles de Gaulle addressed to Laure Moulin, about her brother”, explained the mayor of Béziers, Robert Ménard, on the evening of Monday, December 17. The two-page letter is dated April 8, 1947, nearly 4 years after the death of the Béziers native. It was sold by the descendants of Charles de Gaulle as part of an exceptional auction at Artcurial on Monday.

€20,000 last price

The City of Béziers positioned itself to acquire the document, which was listed at €4,000. But its price ultimately soared and the letter was sold for €20,000. The Béziers community, which had set itself a maximum budget of €5,000 to €6,000 to supplement its fund dedicated to the illustrious resistance fighter and his family, was therefore unable to match it.

“We both had complete confidence in each other”

For your information, the letter is actually a crossed out and corrected draft. In it, one can read in barely decipherable writing the links that united the general and the resistance fighter: “Your letter touched me deeply. Jean Moulin, your heroic brother, was par excellence, my good companion and my friend. It is because we both had, and with full knowledge of the facts, complete confidence that I had chosen and designated him to act and speak, in my name and in the name of the Government of which he was a member, on our territory not yet liberated. It is for the same reason that he had, with all his faith, agreed to do so. Our discussions and our joint work in London, like the reports that he sent me from France and the instructions that I sent him, up until the very day when the enemy seized him to torture and kill him, were the striking expression of this agreement and this confidence. This is to say what contempt the slanderous contortions of those who, today, would like to exploit for their own profit partisans or careerists, against our companions and myself, the pure glory of Jean Moulin.”

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