Saint-Lambert in Paris in Département de Paris, Île-de-France, France — Western Europe

Jean Claude Camors and Paul Camors Memorial

Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, April 28, 2024

1. Jean Claude Camors and Paul Camors Memorial Marker

Inscription. Click to hear the inscription.

En souvenir
de Jean Claude Camors
Fondateur du Réseau Bordeaux-Loupiac
Mort pour la France le 11-10-1943
et
du Capitaine Paul Camors
Mort en Indochine le 9-2-1946

(In memory of Jean Claude Camors, founder of the Bordeaux-Loupiac espionage network, died for France on October 11, 1943, and Captain Paul Camors, died in Indochina on February 2, 1946.)

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, World II • Wars, Non-US.

Location. 48° 50.32′ N, 2° 17.502′ E. Memorial is in Paris, Île-de-France, in Département de Paris. It is in Saint-Lambert. It is on Rue François Mouthon, on the right when traveling south. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 3 Rue François Mouthon, Paris, Île-de-France 75015, France. Touch for directions.

Regionally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

Europe,

the European Union,

Atlantic Europe,

the Schengen Area,

Western Europe,

a coastal Mediterranean country,

and the Western World.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once a French colony

and also the Roman Empire.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Joan Miró (within shouting distance of

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this marker); Écoles Elementaire Saint Lambert Deported Jewish Students Memorial (about 90 meters away, measured in a direct line); Louis-Victor Cazalot (about 120 meters away); Alphonse Osbert (approx. 0.3 kilometers away); Roger Rigaudie (approx. 0.4 kilometers away); Walter Benjamin (approx. 0.4 kilometers away); Georges Bruyere (approx. half a kilometer away); Rue Olivier de Serres Deported Jewish Students Memorial (approx. half a kilometer away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Paris.

Also see . . . Plaque en hommage à Jean-Claude Camors (Musèe de la Résistance en ligne, in French). Excerpt (in translation):

On April 8, 1942, while he was taking part in a fishing trip near the Moroccan coast, he threw himself into the water and swam two hours to reach Gibraltar. From there, he left on the Llanstephan Castel on May 6 and was disembarked in Glasgow on May 13, 1942. He signed his enlistment in the Free French Forces on June 26, 1942 and was sent to the Free French Cadet School in Ribbersford on July 6. Assigned to the BCRA special staff from September 19. He underwent specific training at Hans School, a training center for secret agents to be sent to occupied France. Promoted to second lieutenant, he was tasked with setting
Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, April 28, 2024

2. Jean Claude Camors and Paul Camors Memorial - wide view
up an escape network for Allied airmen in early 1943. Parachuted under the code name Bordeaux in mid-April 1943 near Loches (Indre-et-Loire), he developed his network which took the name Bordeaux Loupiac. In May 1943, following arrests, he decided to go to Spain. Arrested, he managed to reach London on June 21, 1943. He returned to France on July 5, 1943. He developed his network throughout the country, tasked with finding hidden airmen and setting up meetings with them at various points in Brittany. At the time, he had the pseudonym Raoul Caulaincourt. In Rennes, there was the regional head of the network, in the person of a pharmacist from the city, André Heurtier, who organized meetings with his boss. On October 5, he returned to Brittany to accompany airmen. On October 11, 1943, around 3 p.m., Jean-Claude Camors had an appointment at the Café de l'Epoque, rue du Pré Botté with several members of the network. The establishment was run by Franz Nouët, himself an intelligence agent for the National Liberation Movement. Around 5 p.m., a certain Roger L., known as "the Legionnaire", entered, who had joined the Resistance from the beginning and who was now working for the Germans. He recognized Jean-Claude Camors, whom he had met before, pulled out a gun
Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, April 28, 2024

3. Jean Claude Camors and Paul Camors Memorial - wider view
and wanted to arrest everyone. A fight ensued, a German air force sergeant heard gunshots and came in to help Roger L. Jean Claude Camors with two other comrades headed towards rue Maréchal Joffre, with Roger L. on his tail, who fired several shots. The three men rushed into the building at 2, rue Maréchal Joffre and climbed up to the attic to escape through the roofs. Very seriously injured, Jean-Claude Camors left his companions and went back down to take refuge on a landing to protect their escape. With the help of a resident of the building, he destroyed compromising papers that he was carrying on him and swallowed some of them. It was there in the early morning that his body was found. Convinced that he had swallowed all his documents, the Germans took his body away for an autopsy. Jean-Claude Camors was declared "Mort Pour la France" on October 11, 1943.

(Submitted on December 27, 2024.)

Credits. This page was last revised on December 27, 2024. It was originally submitted on December 27, 2024, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California. This page has been viewed 118 times since then and 8 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on December 27, 2024, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.