Leclerc Memorial
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| place | Paris |
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| opening | 1994 |
The Mémorial Leclerc (officially: Mémorial Leclerc et de la Liberation de Paris - Musée Jean Moulin ) is a museum of the City of Paris in the Montparnasse district . It is located on the roof garden of Gare Montparnasse .
function
The little-known museum documents the course of the World War with the role of the French Forces françaises libres on the side of the Allies (especially in North Africa) and the battles against the Axis powers .
The double museum commemorates two important French personalities in World War II . One was Marshal Jacques-Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (1902-1947), called Leclerc, who with his two e blindée division 1944 military head of the Liberation of Paris was. The other was Jean Moulin (1899–1943), who reorganized the Resistance on Charles de Gaulle's orders and died after severe torture before the end of World War II.
location
The location of the museum is historically significant as Leclerc had the first Paris headquarters in the station building. The museum owes its existence on the one hand to the Hauteclocque Foundation, which first existed in Saint-Germain-en-Laye , and on the other hand to the legacy of Antoinette Sasse , who decreed that a museum should be built for Jean Moulin. The then mayor of the city, Jacques Chirac , opened the Mémorial Leclerc on August 24, 1994, the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Paris, and a few days later the Musée Jean Moulin .
Exhibits
Exhibits are underground newspapers , propaganda posters of the Vichy regime , uniforms of the marshal from Africa and Indochina , medals, many large-format photos and videos with interviews with contemporary witnesses.
A large archive with around 16,000 documents and 15,000 photos on Hauteclocque can be used on request; It collects documents on the military side of the struggle of the French army after the German conquest of France , i.e. the period from June 1940 to August 1944.
See also
Web links
- Site of the museum (French)
- Information on the website of the city of Paris (French)
- Information on paris-walking-tours.com (English, with photos)
- Information on the page of the French Ministry of Defense (French)
- Page of the Tourist Office of Paris (Engl.)
Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 25 ″ N , 2 ° 19 ′ 9 ″ E