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New agents were now being recruited almost weekly. Many were to prove shining examples of the faith to which Dewavrin had spoken in London. Two...

The courier chosen by Meslin to bring the reports from Caen to Paris was Maurice Himbert, who owned a motorbike repair shop. He had valid reasons...

Roger Deschambres, the plumber now remembered that some weeks previously, back in March while fixing the central heating in the Hotel de Rouen,...

The danger to which Girard referred could not be overstated. The Gestapo were located at No. 25 Rue des Jacobins in Caen, which the book states...

Girard had overlooked very little. As with all the networks Renault had founded, the new network was to be run on the lines of a French military...

I want to take time for a brief description of each back gammon player present at that meeting in the Café des Touristes that evening. No exact...

Girard gave Meslin a brief account of his meeting with Renault. The new Network was to be divided into cells; Meslin would take charge of the Caen...

I found a 'then and now' photo of the 'mellow red-bricked house with stone sashed windows' amongst Michel Le Querrec's Flickr collection here....

Chapter 5 – A NETWORK IS BORN (p.51) Marcel Girard returned to his native Caen after the Paris meeting with Renault on Saturday, the 4th April...

I want to go back a bit to the meeting between Gilbert Renault and Pierre Brossolette described in Post #10 above. This was an important meeting...

Continued from page 51 (1960 Corgi Edition) - Chapter 5 - 'A Network is Born'... In order to see where we are in this fascinating story, I have...

Before moving on, I want to google some of the people and places mentioned in the book so far. I have also gone through the index to another book;...

Marcel Girard met with Renault on the morning of Wednesday, 1st April 1942 in one of the old plastered houses of the Rue Caulaincourt in the...

During the car journey to RAF Tangmere, Gilbert Renault kept asking himself how had this happened and how badly compromised was his network. Then...

The 39th batch of Renault’s dispatches, coded RZ 39 ( ‘R’ for Renault and ‘Z’ meaning correspondence) arrived in early 1942. It included plans of...

Renault had been busy. Disguised as an insurance inspector, he had sent several preliminary reports via the French Consulate in Madrid, thence...

St Aubin sur Mer on the 6th June 1944 was the western most point of Sword Beach. Almost four years previously, during the early morning of the 4th...

Dewavrin looked at the short broad shouldered man who put his head round the door. ‘I’m looking for Colonel Passy the stranger said, smiling at...

A few days after Dewavrin had formed his plan for the network of amateur agents inside occupied France, he had a visit from the Head of F Section,...

From what Google Maps tells me, This seems to be 69 Cromwell Road, where the three officers of the fledgling Free French Secret Intelligence...