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The Armistice of 11 November 1918 — The end of the Great War’s fighting
Signed at 5:15 a.m. in Marshal Foch’s railway carriage, the armistice silenced the guns at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month — bells rang across all France, and for one million four hundred thousand absent. (Editorial synthesis)
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 took place in Compiègne. (source: Base Mérimée and Ministère des Affaires étrangères)
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 ended in the guns silenced at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. (source: Larousse and Ministère des Armées)
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