Memorial Maxime Guillot

This memorial commemorates Maxime Guillot, who was murdered by the Gestapo on 29 January 1944.

Maxime Guillot, born January 1, 1900_in Bruailles (Saône-et-Loire) and shot in Dijon on January 29, 1944

When the war broke out in September 1939, Maxime Guillot was mobilized in the workshops of Dijon-Perrigny. After the armistice of June 22, 1940, he took over the management of his café-restaurant "Le Grand Saint Vincent" in Chenôve. He uses the cafe to smuggle prisoners who had escaped from Longvic's camp to free France.

From 1941 he maintained contacts with elements of the French resistance and the railway resistance. In June and July 1943 under the pseudonym "Julien" he began organizing and directing sabotage of the telecommunications infrastructure together with the "Charlie group".

He joined the Air Operations Office (BOA) of "Region D" (Côte d'Or, Haute-Marne, Haute-Saône, Doubs, Territoire de Belfort, Northern Jura and Saône-et-Loire) where he led the operations in Saone-et-Loire.

Appointed an officer in the French resistance movement, he was wanted by the Gestapo. Twice he managed to escape, in November and December 1943, but he was wounded in January 1944. He escaped under the fire of Gestapo agents, shooting a German with a revolver and wounding another. He comes out injured in the leg.

Hunted and intensely tracked down by the Germans, he was caught fifteen days later, presumably betrayed, on January 29 in Dijon, after meeting BOA members at Café Brocot, rue Condorcet. Surrounded by, he shot two Germans, but was wounded in the legs and abdomen. Then he shoots himself in the head with the last bullet of his revolver to escape torture, after swallowing a strategic document of the resistance .

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