In December 1941, the first meeting took place between Philippe Beyne, lieutenant-colonel reservist and former tax collector Sault and Maxime Fischer, lawyer struck off the bar Paris because Jewish, refugee in Carpentras.

Maxime Fischer Says :

“At the Hôtel du Louvre in Sault, I saw a man dressed in old leather, with a rosette of an officer of the Legion of Honor, two-day beard, who listened without saying a single word. Gradually, he uttered a few rumblings while I explained my plan to him.
And when I asked him: What do you think, will you march with us? He thought for thirty seconds and replied: Yes, that’s okay. That’s how the Ventoux maquis started!”

“The Ventoux Maquis, belonging to the network designated under the code name R2, was during the World War II, one of the most important maquis of Provence. It owes this firstly to the strategic position of the massif in the Rhone Valley, then to the number of refractory people who took refuge there between 1939 and 1940, as well as to the welcome given by the local population.

From that time on, le  Louvre kitchen was often occupied by resistance fighters.

The establishment was bombed in 1944 and was rebuilt after the war.

Le Louvre enjoys a privileged place in the village of Sault.