Greetings, and a very belated happy June 20th! June 20th is the birthday of our current episode’s subject: Jean Moulin. As a long-standing Moulin buff I could not expose you to the war-time heroics of this gentleman’s life without also throwing light on all that came before. In this episode, we recall [...]

A technologically superior redo of the long awaited Jean Moulin ep on La Resistance! Tune in to learn more about the man historian Thane Peterson was speaking of when he said ‘If there’s a greater hero of WWII of any nationality, I haven’t read about him.’

My apologies for the belated episode. I’m not dead, but was having and recovering from surgery for part of that time, so close but no cigar on that one. Now on to our first episode to be about just one person, so who else could a podcast about the Resistance focus an [...]

In this episode, we look at D’Astier’s infamous quote that you had to be mal-adjusted to be a Resistant in 1940.  We also look back to the Spanish Civil War, N’Orleans just after the American Civil War, and also mis-pronounce everything in a ten block radius (at no extra charge!). Special thanks to the fine folks [...]

Episode two of the podcast La Resistance, “Of the First Hour: War of the Unknown Warrior.” In this ep we look at the birth of the French Resistance. We discuss radio speeches, the weather in Bordeaux, a terrorist cell of little old ladies, and the monster of Loch Ness. We also call Marshal Petain a [...]

Welcome to the first podcast of La Resistance - “Paris: Open City.” In this episode we discuss the exodus, Marshal Pétain, the political history of the Third Republic, and the relationship between the French and their dogs. Show notes can be found at http://french-resistance.blogspot.com