history was written in this train carriage in comp janja eighty kilometers north of paris on nov eleventh one thousand nine hundred eighteen the allies and germany signed an armistice to end their fighting the signing ceremony in the dining car was a de facto end to world war one. the carriage has since been reconstructed and campian yet remains one of the most important places in french history a statue of the delegations leader marshall fall she has been erected here it is still a place of pilgrimage for many french citizens. for the frontal. compiegne is tremendously important to the french everyone in france knows the place and its significance they know the end of world war one was sealed there and with it france's victory over germany. nov eleventh is still a national holiday in france after november and. it is also a day of remembrance for the one point five million fallen french soldiers the fact that twenty two years later during the second world war the nazis dictated to france the conditions for a cease fire at the same location is now just a footnote because in one thousand ni