The Place du 8 Novembre 1942 is a public square located in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, at the intersection of the Rue La Fayette and the Rue de Chabrol, and limited by the Rue du Faubourg Poissonnière.[1]
The name of the square commemorates the date, 8 November 1942, when in in World War II the Operation Torch started, the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign.[1]