GAULLE Charles de. L. A. (minute), 8 April 1947, to Laure Moulin; 2 pages in-8 on General de Gaulle letterhead. Draft heavily crossed out and corrected to Jean Moulin's sister. "Your letter touched me deeply. Jean Moulin, your heroic brother, was my good companion and my friend par excellence. It was because we both had full confidence in him that I chose and appointed him to act and speak, on my behalf and on behalf of the Government of which he was a member, in our still unliberated territory. It was for the same reason that he had, in all his faith, agreed to do so. Our discussions and our joint work in London, like the reports he sent me from France and the instructions I sent him, right up to the very day when the enemy seized him to torture and shoot him, were the striking expression of this agreement and this trust. The slanderous contortions of those who, today, would like to exploit the pure glory of Jean Moulin for their own partisan or upstart ends, against our companions and myself, are deserving of such contempt"... LNC, II, p. 816.