Madeleine Tambour (born 18 December 1908 in Paris, France and died in deportation to the Ravensbrück camp on 4 March 1945) was a French actress, active in the French Resistance within several networks including André Girard's Carte network and several networks of the Special Operations Executive.
The family apartment located at 38 avenue de Suffren,[1] Paris XVe, served as a mailbox and clandestine home for a large number of agents of the Special Operations Executive at the end of 1942 and the beginning of 1943, starting with Andrée Borrel and Francis Suttill at their arrival in France.
[2] Her sister Germaine is the secretary of André Girard, founder of the "Carte" network, which wants to be independent of Free France and for this reason obtains the support of the Special Operations Executive (section F of the SOE).
Despite the intervention of several resistance fighters, in particular Françis Suttill, Armel Guerne, Jean Worms and Jacques Weil, to have them released, Madeleine Tambour and her older sister were interned in the prisons of Fresnes, Romainville and Compiègne.
[3] A plaque affixed to the facade of the building at 38, avenue de Suffren pays homage to her, as well as to her sister Germaine and to Marie-Louise Monnet.