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The signed speech of Malraux for the entrance of Jean Moulin to the Pantheon.

“Enter here, Jean Moulin, with your terrible procession. With those who died in the cellars without having spoken, like you; And even, which may be more excruciating, having spoken; With all the striped and all the mower of the concentration camps, with the last stumbling body of the awful night lines and fog, finally fell under the sticks. ”

8.000€

André MALRAUX (1901.1976)

Tapestry with signed autograph sending.

11 sheets in-4 ° ronted at the time and stapled.

André MALRAUX

Transfer of ashes of

Jean Moulin

pantheon

December 19, 1964

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Famous speeches - dedicated on the upper margins of the first sheet by Malraux - for the entrance of Jean Moulin to the Pantheon. This typing of the time presents slight differences with the definitive text published.

Let us quote of course this famous passage: " As Leclerc entered the Invalides, with its procession of exaltation in the African sun and the fights of Alsace, entered here, Jean Moulin, with your terrible procession. With those who died in the cellars without having spoken, like you; And even, which may be more excruciating, having spoken; With all the striped and all the mower of the concentration camps, with the last stumbling body of the awful night lines and fog, finally fell under the sticks ; With the eight thousand French people who did not return from the prison, with the last dead woman in Ravensbrück for having given asylum to one of ours. Between the people born with the shadows and disappeared with her - our brothers in the order of the night . »»

In 1963, André Malraux, Minister of Culture of the President of the Republic Charles de Gaulle, suggested the transfer of the ashes of Jean Moulin to the Pantheon. The idea is unanimous and said transfer was made on December 19, 1964, twenty -one years after the tragic death of the resistant.

The speech of Malraux, addressed in agreement with the protocol to the President of the Republic, extends for 21 poignant minutes: " Mr. President of the Republic, so more than twenty years ago that Jean Moulin left, in a time of December undoubtedly similar to this one, to be parachuted on the land of Provence, and become the chief of a people of the night. Without this ceremony, how many children in France know its name? He only found him to be killed; And since then, have been born sixteen million children… ”