“Elite administrator, artist, powerful patriot, finally a hero! The department of Eure-et-Loir must perpetuate the memory among the purest national glories and the fiercest martyrs of freedom. » These words, published in the summer of 1947 in a gazette of Nogent-le-Rotrou, proclaimed the strength of the local attachment to the figure of Jean Moulin, prefect of Eure-et-Loir from February 21, 1939 to November 2, 1940 . “With his hometown of Béziers, Chartres was the first town to honor him” notes the historian Michel Fratissier, author ofJean Moulin or the making of a hero (The Harmattan). And for nearly 80 years, this medieval city has remained a high place in the memory of the great man.