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FRANCE: AE medal, 1918, XF

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FRANCE: AE medal, 1918, XF
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FRANCE: AE medal, 1918, N-189511, 68mm bronze medal by Georges-Henri Prud'Homme for the Signing of the Armistice Ending the Great War; F. FOCH MARECHAL DE FRANCE / MCMXVIII around bust of Marechal Ferdinand Foch left, G.PRUD'HOMME below // RETHONDES / SIGNATURE / DE / L'ARMISTICE below train car No. 2419 D where the armistice was signed in the Rethondes Forest, 8 -11 NOVEMBRE / 1918 in exergue, XF. The Compiègne Wagon (2419D) was a train carriage in which the armistices of the First World War and the Battle of France in World War II were held. The wagon, which was a dining car, would host both treaty meetings at the same spot in the Forest of Compiègne, France almost 22 years apart. It was built by the Belgian-founded French company Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits in May 1914. In November 1918 it hosted the armistice talks between the Allied Powers and the German Empire. After the war, it was put on museum display at the Glade of the Armistice in France. However, after the victorious invasion of France by Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, in a symbolic act to show total subjugation of the French, had the wagon moved back to its exact spot of the 1918 Armistice for the signing of the 1940 Armistice. After the signing, the Glade of the Armistice was destroyed and the Compiègne Wagon was taken to Germany. It would be destroyed near the end of World War II by the SS.