The French National Committee comprised six civilian and six military personnel: • Brigadier General Charles de Gaulle, President; •
René Pleven, Commissioner of Economy, Finance and the Colonies. In charge of the coordination of civilian administrative departments ; • Major General
Paul Legentilhomme, Commissioner of War; • , Commissioner of Foreign Affairs until October 18, 1942 (dismissal), interim replacement by Pleven and then by René Massigli; •
René Cassin, Commissioner of Justice and Public Instruction; •
André Diethelm, Commissioner for Action in the Metropolis, Work, and Information; •
André Philip, Commissioner of the Interior from 27; •
Jacques Soustelle, Commissioner of Information from July 27, 1942; • Air Brigade General
Martial Valin, Commissioner of the Air Force; • Vice-Admiral
Émile Muselier, Commissioner of the Navy and the Merchant Navy, until March 3, 1942 (resignation); replaced by Rear Admiral
Philippe Auboyneau from 4; • Lieutenant General
Georges Catroux, commissioner at large from March 4, 1942; • Rear Admiral
Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu, commissioner at large from March 4, 1942. On 20 March 1943, the committee secretly appointed
Jean Moulin, then in London, as representative of the French National Committee in Metropolitan France and "national commissioner on active duty" and put him in charge of creating a single coordinating body for the
French Resistance. According to
Daniel Cordier, "Jean Moulin was then becoming one of the main characters of the French internal Resistance. == See also ==