La Mal Coiffée

La Mal Coiffée / Ancien Palais du Bourbon was the residence of the Dukes of Bourbon in Moulins and is only partially preserved.

Louis XIV and later the French Revolution left many of the defenses, but also former residential complexes, razed . In front of the west towers of the Notre Dame de Moulins cathedral , the oldest part of the residence has been preserved, the 14th-century donjon , which bears the name “La Mal Coiffée” ( German  “The Badly Coiffed” ) because of the bent roof slopes. The residential building, which burned down in 1775, once stretched north of it with its apartments and pavilions .

After the fire of 1775, the building became a prison, where thousands of members of the Resistance and Jews were held during the German occupation from June 19, 1940 to August 25, 1944 . Among the prisoners was Maurice Tinland (1915–1963), successor to Jean Moulin as head of the Mouvements unis de la Résistance and from 1947 to 1959 mayor of Moulins. Tinland was arrested on January 28, 1944 and subjected to physical and psychological torture for seven months until he was liberated on August 25, 1944 and witnessed the liberation of the city. After World War II, the tower continued to serve as a prison until a new penal institution was opened in Yzeure in 1984 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maurice Tinland, le respecté August 8, 2014, accessed March 19, 2017

Web links

• "La Mal Coiffée" de Moulins-sur-Allier: prison allemande en 1940

Coordinates: 46 ° 33 ′ 58.9 "  N , 3 ° 19 ′ 51.3"  E