Camille Dourguin

Camille Dourguin was born in Maillane near Avignon in the South of France The young Camille won a place in the Ecole Normale de Garçons d’Aixen- Provence, from which he graduated as an ‘instituteur’ (primary school teacher) in 1913. He was posted to the nearby village of Eyragues, but was only there a year before being conscripted into the French Army to fi ght in the front line during the 1914–18 war. He survived the confl ict and on his …