Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-254) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1 The Resistance in the Pantheon -- 2 A Republican Upbringing, 1899-1919 -- 3 A Jacobin in the Prefectures, 1919-34 -- Left and right in inter-war France -- Administration and politics after the war, 1919-21 -- Prefects in France - their role and history -- The ladder of preferment, 1920-5 -- Marriage and divorce, 1926-8 -- The youngest sub-prefect: Albertville, November -- 1925-January 1930 -- A sub-prefect in Brittany and Paris, February 1930- -- June 1933 -- Thonon, and Paris, June 1933-June 1934 -- 4 Fascism and Anti-Fascism, 1934-6 -- The 6th of February -- After the storm, February-July 1934 -- Secretary-general of the Somme, Amiens, July -- 1934-June 1936 -- 5 The Popular Front, 1936-8 -- Pacifism and war in France in the 1930s -- The Popular Front - class conflict and the exercise of -- power -- Moulin and the Spanish War -- The Air Ministry and French rearmament, 1936-40 -- Aviation populaire - flying for all -- The end of the Popular Front, 1937-8 -- 6 The Youngest Prefect, 1938-9 -- The prefect of Aveyron, April 1938-January 1939 -- A prefect at Chartres in the shadow of war, February -- 1939-June 1940 -- 7 War and the First Resistance, 1939-40 -- Living through the phoney war -- The fall of France, 10 May-22 June 1940 -- The invasion seen from Chartres, 10 May-14 June -- Confronting the invaders, 15-18 June 1940 -- A prefect under occupation, June-November 1940 -- 8 From Resister to Resistance, 1940-1 -- 'Doing something', September 1940-October 1941 -- The French resistance in the autumn of 1941 -- The 'Free French' before October 1941 -- Jean Moulin in England, 20 October-31 December 1941 -- The impact and mission of Monsieur Mercier -- 9 Mission Rex, 1942-3 -- Falling to earth, 2 January 1942 -- Meeting the resisters -- Creating the institutions of resistance -- Broadening the base, April-August 1942 -- 'Operation Torch' and its consequences -- War and resistance after 11 November 1942 -- 10 The National Resistance Council, May 1943 -- Politics and resistance, December 1942-February 1943 -- Moulin in London, 14 February-20 March 1943 -- Compulsory labour and the maquis, 1942-3 -- Moulin versus Brossolette - a battle for the soul of -- the resistance -- The final steps to unity, March-May 1943 -- The day of the CNR, 27 May 1943 -- After 27 May -- 11 The Tragedy of Caluire - and After -- The road to Caluire -- 21 June 1943 -- Calvary -- The resistance after Moulin -- A world that might have been, 1944-79? -- 12 A Contested Legacy, 1943-2000 -- One martyr amongst many, 1943-58 -- Moulin as republican icon, 1958-64: Socialist or Gaullist? -- From resistance leader to national icon, 1963-99 -- Frenay against Moulin - and Daniel Cordier -- Klaus Barbie, Jacques Verges and the 'betrayals' of the -- resistance -- Communist 'conspiracy' and the 'great recruitment', -- 1988-93 -- The 'Vichy syndrome' and Moulin after sixty years -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.