Their mission was to restore republican legality and state authority, prevent any power vacuum, and avoid the establishment of an Allied military administration (see AMGOT).
The CRRs were expected to take their posts before the Liberation, but due to German arrests or errors by the Resistance—who mistakenly executed one CRR and wounded another—there were many reassignments.
He was installed in Bayeux by General de Gaulle shortly after D-Day on June 14, 1944, as the CRR for Rouen could not reach his post.
Coulet's success in establishing authority over Vichy officials and Allied forces allowed de Gaulle to thwart the last American attempts to implement AMGOT.
Maurice Papon became chief of staff of the commissaire de la République[1] He effectively retained the same functions as during the war.