Editing Jean Moulin (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Béziers maison Jean Moulin.jpg|left|thumb|Birthplace of Jean Moulin in Béziers.]]
Jean Moulin was born at 6 Rue d'Alsace in [[Béziers]], [[Hérault]], son of Antoine-Émile Moulin and Blanche Élisabeth Pègue. He was the grandson of an insurgent opposing the [[1851 French coup d'état|coup d'état of 2 December 1851]]. His father was a lay teacher at the Université Populaire and a [[Freemason]] at the [[masonic lodge|lodge]] Action Sociale.

Moulin was [[baptism|baptised]] on 6 August 1899<ref>↑ « Jean Moulin » [archive], sur saint-andiol.fr.
</ref> in the church of Saint-Vincentin in [[Saint-Andiol]] (Bouches-du-Rhône), the village his parents came from. He spent an uneventful childhood in the company of his brother, Joseph, and his sister, Laure. Joseph died of [[Peritonitis|acute peritonitis]] in 1907.<ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last=Azéma |first=Jean-Pierre |title=Jean Moulin: Le rebelle, le politique, le résistant |publisher=Perrin |year=2003 |isbn=2262013292 |pages=}}</ref><sup>:27</sup> Throughout his early years, Moulin was an average student, including at the Lycée Henri IV in Béziers.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marnham |first1=Patrick |title=Resistance and Betrayal: The Death and Life of the Greatest Hero of the French Resistance |date=2012 |publisher=Random House Publishing Group |isbn=978-1588360786 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2NBGnf9LcecC}}</ref> One of his report cards states that "he would be an excellent student, if he were ever to start working."<ref name=":5" /><sup>:33</sup>

In 1917, he enrolled at the Faculty of Law of Montpellier, where he was not a brilliant student though he did finish his legal studies with a diploma.<ref name=":5" /><sup>:33</sup> However, thanks to the influence of his father, he was appointed as attaché to the cabinet of the prefect of Hérault under the presidency of [[Raymond Poincaré]].