Daniel Cordier just passed away yesterday at the age of 100.
Former secretary of Jean Moulin until his arrest, companion of the Liberation, grand officer of the Legion of Honor, the man had become over the past three decades one of the best specialists in the Resistance, even though this expert and contemporary art dealer confessed to having always hated this
"veteran"
spirit
which had
"rotten"
his youth in the interwar period.
He had even sworn to the Liberation never to go back on this past.
"I saw how the French behaved during the Occupation, then I heard how they spoke about it after the war: comical and ashamed"
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This refined spirit, who later confessed his homosexuality, preferred to turn the page and devote himself to the art market to which Jean Moulin, a great lover of painting, had initiated him.
Cordier has thus become, as historian Pierre Nora has summed it up with a stroke of his pen,
"an art dealer out of passion and
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