Le glaive brisé (The broken sword) by Marcel Courbier, 1948
Homage to Jean Moulin
Boulevard de la Résistance
Chartres, July 2002
“Le Glaive brisé (The Broken Sword). That's the name given to the Jean Moulin memorial, which has stood since 1948 adjacent to the former prefecture building, now the residence of the prefects. A sword that can symbolize the Resistance, decapitated by the arrest on June 22, 1943, in Caluire, of the man entrusted by General de Gaulle to unify it. But one also thinks, subconsciously, of the razor blade he used to slit his own throat on the night of June 17-18, 1940, while he was still prefect of Eure-et-Loir.” (Le Glaive brisé, Le Point)
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