This article was published in The i
Standing outside France’s Musée de l’Armistice, I’m surprised to find so few people visiting the spot where the First World War officially came to an end. Here in the middle of Picardy’s dense Compiègne forest, rain drips from the giant oaks and browning beeches.
An avenue up to the museum opens into a wide clearing in which, 100 years ago, Allied and German leaders met in a railway carriage to bring an end to the brutal war that left 9.5 million soldiers dead and more than 21 million wounded.
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