Compiègne

American  

[kawn-pyen-y^uh] / kɔ̃ˈpyɛn yə /

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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Example Sentences

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

The concert comes as French President Emmanuel Macron and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the town of Compiègne in northern France, where the Allies and Germany signed the Armistice.

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

Empress Eugénie took each year to her country castle at Compiègne, where she and Napoleon III spent the fall.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 22, 2016

We crossed a bridge and entered the city and stopped in the big public square facing Leroux's beautiful statue of Joan, which the later "friends of Compiègne" have raised to her memory.

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