Mesrine, "The Great" - so nicknamed the members of the special police brigade that executed him in the streets of Paris - was a man who made the qualitative leap of living outside the law to live against the law: an expedition without return during which he did not forget the fate of the prisoners, nor the oath of vengeance that he had thrown to his enemies. Considered as a simple murderer by some and as a legend of modern rebellion by others, these memories that we now present will not leave anyone indifferent, we have no doubt about that.