It is early morning on 23rd June 1940. Paris has been occupied for over a week. An armistice was signed in the same railway carriage, at the same spot in the Forest of Compiègne where Foch had imposed terms on the German delegation in 1918. At Le Bourget the light catches a military transport aircraft […]
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Hitler’s morning off in Paris.
Posted in France, Holiday, News, Paris, Travel, tagged Albert Speer, Arc de Triomphe, Charles Mangin, Edith Cavell, Eiffel Tower, Hans Spiedel, Hitler, Opera House Garnier, Palais de Chaillot, Paris occupation, Place de la Concorde, Richard Maddox on October 26, 2011 | 22 Comments »
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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 »
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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