A local resistance fighter, Louis Picot, whose aid to the Allies remains underestimated, ran the Café Picot located on the west bank, near the Bénouville Bridge.

After midnight on June 6, 1944 during the capture of the Bénouville Bridge by the 6th Airborne Commandos, Louis Picot came out of his house and making big gestures to Lieutenant Brotheridge's men exclaimed "Long live the English!".

Louis Picot, hit by a hail of bullets, did not survive.

To this day, according to historians and the testimony from veterans, the Café Picot would have been secured first by the British airborne troops.

At a national level, coded “personal messages”, transmitted from London on the BBC radio waves, served as instructions for the French Resistance networks.

Cutting off electricity and telecommunications lines, sabotaging railway tracks and bridges, or any aid to the Allies, were punishable by deportation to camps or death; not to mention the interrogations and torture beforehand.