"for the freedom and honor of France, he entered the Resistance, left everything, accepted the danger, the loneliness, the arid routine and the insane complications of the clandestine networks ... Assigned to the administration of the Resistance networks in the South zone, he was parachuted in 1942 and then became the secretary ... of Jean Moulin. Their commitment ... allowed that on the day of the landing the allies saw a France rising from the shadow in which it was lurking, ready to take back its destiny in hand".[23]