Jean-Claude Camredon

Biography

Jean‑Claude Camredon was born on April 9, 1933, in Neuilly‑sur‑Seine and died on March 4, 2016, in Issy‑les‑Moulineaux. Before becoming a screenwriter, he pursued a completely different career: he worked as an accountant at INSERM. In 1961, reading an article in Historia about the Napoleonic spy Charles‑Louis Schulmeister sparked a bold idea: creating a television adventure series centered on this historical figure. Encouraged by a friend, he submitted his project to the ORTF. After several mon…