the arc de triomphe in early 19th-century century. not known, the first internal flame was lit in the western centuriesenturies and in 1920. it starts an interestiay for remembrance worldwide. a course in france, there is always a tone here of the cost and the price of one were one. i would say that this dovetails with the remembrance day of an aging queen and the united kingdom. in the united states overnight, francine, there will be no focus on armistice day. there is absolute chaos, no other way to put it, at the pentagon, with the resignation of the secretary of defense. it is a very different remembrance day this year. also because the coronavirus is limiting public services, so a lot of people are respecting the two-minute u.k.ce, which falls in the usually an hour from now. there are so many things that people are thinking about because of the uncertainty in u.s. politics, but again we remember the fallen on armistice day. that's get to bloomberg first word news with ritika gupta. ritika: president-elect joe biden calls preside

they would visit the arc de triomphe in paris.ey did some shopping trips and other things that were non-world war i and non-war related. that was over four different summers, 1930 through 1933. i don't know how many ultimately came to this site. i hope i have my numbers right -- 6933. i think that is the number. just under 7000 total women came over on the trip. men were not eligible. it was often called the goldstar mother pilgrimages. it was the goldstar pilgrimage, because it was mothers who lost their sons. sometimes, widows as well. most of these guys did not get a chance to marry. but if they had a widow, the widow would be the one ultimately -- the superintendent at that point would have welcomed them in. if memory serves me, it was an approximately a three-week voyage from door to door. on a cruise liner with nice tablecloth and all of that. but, it took a long time to get here, that's where the three weeks weren't really three weeks in the country. they were careful to separate the groups out a couple of different ways. w

macron at the arc de triomphe this morning. am looking at the money market screen on the bloomberg, negative interest rates on the 10-year and the france. how do the people of a nation work with negative interest rates? jonathan: with great difficulty, and i remember a conversation we unicredit aember of couple weeks back and is stuck with me. will we be able to engineer a recovery in the euro zone that leads to higher interest rates? we failed last time. in his response was we will likely fail this time. i am paraphrasing. my words, not his. but that is what he alluded to. the story is in europe, even when we get through this mess, trend growth will be so low that the ecb will not be able to go up in interest rates, anywhere near where they were 10, 15 years ago. tom: yesterday talking with mr. kaplan, it was not about the weekend after thanksgiving, but it was about him talking about two quarters in america and then improvement. is that tone the same in europe? i do not think so. jonathan: with lockdowns and the u.k., france,