Jean-Yves Jouannais : encyclopaedia of war

Entry: "Kamelote", excerpt: "We should add that, in this part of the war, as we advanced through the terrain occupied by the Germans, we noticed imitations of ‘kamelote’ which had nothing to do with this typically French warrior art known as camouflage, which we can claim with pride. "

(Gaston d’Estreil, Le Camouflage et la guerre, une nouveauté artistique, in the review "Le Pays de France" no.136, 24 May 1917)