Compiègne

American  

[kawn-pyen-y^uh] / kɔ̃ˈpjɛn jə /

noun

1. a city in N France, on the Oise River: nearby were signed the armistices between the Allies and Germany 1918, and between Germany and France 1940.

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Compiègne British  

/ kɔ̃pjɛɲ /

noun

1. a city in N France, on the Oise River: scene of the armistice at the end of World War I (1918) and of the Franco-German armistice of 1940. Pop: 41 254 (1999)

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Compiègne

After my husband and I spent a week in the Compiègne Forest visiting the armistice train carriage, we found it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2023

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.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 11, 2018

Mrs Merkel became the first German leader since World War Two to visit the forest near the town of Compiègne in northern France where the Armistice was signed.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2018

The armistice was signed in a railroad car in the Compiègne Forest, north of Paris.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2018

She had delivered Compiègne the year before, but now again it was in trouble, besieged by the Duke of Burgundy.

From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Paine, Albert Bigelow