Museum of the liberation of Paris officially called unusual memorial-Museum Leclerc and Jean Moulin. Two names in the title reflect the origin of the collection.

The main part of the exhibition tells the story of two legendary figures: Marshal Jean Philippe Leclercq, and one of the founders of the French Resistance Jean Moulin. At the end of the last century first Foundation in memory of Leclerc, and then a friend of Jean Moulin Antoinette Sass donated to the Paris collection owned by them – on the condition that the memorial will be named by the names of the characters.

The names of these symbolize the two forces that, combined, led to the country's liberation from Nazi occupation: the current inside the French Resistance and de Gaulle's troops, called "Fighting France".

The artist and the bureaucrat Jean Moulin in 1941 got from occupied France to London and met with de Gaulle. Performing a task of General, Moulin has United disparate groups of partisans in the national Resistance Council. 21 June 1943, Moulin was captured by the Gestapo. Interrogated and tortured him personally "butcher of Lyons" captain Klaus Barbie. Jean Moulin did not betray his comrades and died on the way to a concentration camp.

Leclerc is an alias of count Jacques Philippe de Odluka, which he took to secure his family that remained in France. Ancestors of Earl participated in the Crusades and the Napoleonic wars. He sided with de Gaulle and led troops, commanded, to participate in the fight against the Germans. In 1944 he commanded the military units in France during the allied landings in Normandy. It was his armoured division, obeying de Gaulle, was the first to become rebels against the occupiers Paris.

The Museum features the etchings of Jean Moulin to the poetry of Tristan Corbier, clandestine leaflets and Newspapers, propaganda posters collaborators. In the dining room oval wall turned into fourteen screens, which recreated footage of the liberation of Paris, the visitor is immersed in an atmosphere of jubilation free city.

The Museum is located in the heart of the Latin quarter which was often an art lover Jean Moulin. It housed the command post of General Leclerc on August 25, 1944, the day of the liberation of the capital.