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Museum of the Order of the Liberation

51 bis boulevard de La Tour-Maubourg
75700 PARIS Cedex 07

The Museum of the Order of the Liberation is a true memorial, rich and moving. It opened thirty years ago inside the Invalides building in Paris, in the Pavillon Robert de Cotte, which houses the Chancellery of the Order, and is dedicated to the Companions of the Liberation.

The Museum of the Order of the Liberation

The Museum covers the feats, heroic acts and the sacrifice of individuals and groups that left everything behind to continue the battle when all seemed lost, at one of the most tragic times in the history of France. From June 18th, 1940, to May 8th, 1945, they were at the core of the history of Free France, the Resistance movement inside France and the Deportation.

The Free France Gallery

The Museum is spread out over 1,000 m2, with three Galleries and six halls, over 150 showcases and 3,700 artifacts and documents.

The items exhibited are often personal souvenirs of the Companions, which witnessed their involvement directly: the prefect outfit and civilian clothing belonging to Jean Moulin, a goodbye letter written by a sixteen-year-old sentenced to death to his parents, pennants taken from the enemy in the battlefields of Africa and Europe; uniforms belonging to the Normandie-Niemen Fighter Squadron, original drawings made in the concentration camps; the saber that belonged to General Von Choltitz; locomotive parts that were blown up with plastic explosives by the train operators themselves, underground pamphlets and newspapers and the dreary rags worn by prisoners in the death camps...

The Museum also has a Hall of Honor that is dedicated especially to the Grand Master of the Order, General De Gaulle.

The Resistance Gallery

80 of his decorations are on exhibit there, his last military uniform and some of his most important wartime manuscripts, among which is the original manuscript of the Appeal to all of the French People.

The Hall of Honor

The Friends of the Museum of the Order of the Liberation Association is responsible for protecting the Museum's collections.

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