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Trump misses cemetery visit as Macron and Merkel vow unity

2018-11-11 10:13:31       source:The Guardian

November 10, 2018


Under grey clouds and persistent drizzle, France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, and Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, clasped hands yesterday at a solemn ceremony at Compiègne as they marked the centenary of the armistice signing.


It was the first time since 1940 that leaders from the two countries had met at the historic site, where Marshal Ferdinand Foch, supreme commander of the western front, signed the ceasefire agreement with Germany in a railway carriage.


Yesterday, as the French and German national anthems were played, the sun briefly broke through and the chancellor rested her head on the president’s. The two leaders laid a wreath and unveiled a plaque celebrating their reconciliation. They then signed the visitors’ book in a replica of Foch’s railway carriage, known as the Compiègne Wagon, where in an act of revenge Adolf Hitler forced France to sign its capitulation in June 1940.


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