Not a very inspiring title I know. It’s the number of a 1913 railway carriage in a white stone building on the edge of a leafy glade in Compiègne, near Paris. Made of dark wood with brass fittings, the carriage stands enshrined in its ‘carriage-house’ like a ship in a dry dock, far from the […]
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Posted in France, News, Paris, Travel, tagged 11 November 1918, Armistice Day, Compiegne, History, Richard Maddox, World War 1 on November 4, 2010 | 26 Comments »