This morning, civil, political, and military authorities will participate in a ceremony in memory of the 99th anniversary of the Armistice of the Great War at the Monument aux Morts in Rubea Capeu.
For the record: The Armistice of 1918, signed on November 11, 1918, at 5:15 a.m., marks the end of the fighting in the First World War (1914-1918), the victory of the Allies, and the total defeat of Germany, yet it is not a capitulation in the strict sense.
The ceasefire is effective at eleven o’clock, resulting throughout France in peals of bells and bugle calls announcing the end of a war that caused more than 18.6 million deaths, injuries, and mutilations, including 8 million civilians.
The German and Allied generals gathered in a converted dining car from Marshal Foch’s headquarters train in the clearing of Rethondes, in the forest of Compiègne.
Later, on June 28, 1919, the peace treaty was signed in Versailles, which truly ended the state of war.
