Louis Delamare was born on November 12, 1921, in the commune of Trouville-sur-Mer, Normandy.
[1] In August 1979, he was appointed French ambassador to Lebanon and resided in Beirut at the time of the Lebanese Civil War.
He was murdered in a possible kidnapping attempt on September 4, 1981, when a white BMW carrying four gunmen pulled in front of the ambassador's Peugeot Peugeot 604 on the road leading to his residence in the predominantly islamic West Beirut.
Delamare sustained several bullet wounds in the head and body and died in the Barbir Hospital during his operation.
Delamare's body was transferred to France the next day and is now buried in Tourgéville.