A century after fighting for Paris, leaders mark the armistice.
A century after fighting for Paris, leaders mark the armistice.
Paris - Paris, the City of Light, was always the greatest prize of the First World War, whether to conquer or defend.
So it's fair that when the victors and the vanquished meet to commemorate the centenary of this weekend's armistice, the biggest ceremony will be on the famous Champs Elysees at the Arc de Triomphe.
Some 60 leaders will mark the ceasefire that occurred at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.
Such was the symbolic importance of the French capital that the victorious general of the USA. UU John J. Pershing said it was his "wish that all men of the United States Expeditionary Forces have the opportunity to visit Paris before returning to the United States."
Far from all the surviving American soldiers of the 1914-1918 war, they arrived in the French capital, but on Sunday, President Donald Trump will join his French counterpart and host, Emmanuel Macron, and others to remember the millions of people who they died during the first world conflict. .
Alan Seeger, the American poet who Macron praised in his speech before the US Congress. UU Last year, he already captured the seeds of reconciliation in 1916, when he wrote, as a soldier in the French Foreign Legion, that "I never took up the weapons of hatred." against Germany or the Germans, but purely out of love for France. "
France, Great Britain and their empire, Russia and the United States had the main armies that opposed a German-led coalition that also included the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires. Nearly 10 million soldiers died, often in a brutal trench war where poisonous gas added a cruelty to the war that the world had never seen.
Hundreds of thousands of people from all corners of the world died in Europe, many of them on the western front that stretched from the Flemish fields of Belgium to almost the Swiss border.
With the legacy of the defeated Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit the place in the forest north of Paris, where the military leaders agreed on a train carriage to the armistice at 5 a.m. of November 11, 1918, six hours before it went into effect.
On Sunday, in another show of reconciliation, Merkel will open an international peace forum in Paris with Macron and the Secretary General of the United States, Antonio Guterres.
Like other leaders visiting the national cemeteries scattered throughout northern France, Trump will visit two burial sites that will highlight how the United States came of age as a military power after joining the war in 1917 and turning it into a dominant force for the next century. .
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