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Sumptuous interiors in
the private apartments
at Château de Compiègne

9 furniture, memorabilia and Musée Wagon de
l’Armistice
portraits, while the Musée
Compiègne de la Voiture is an assembly " ⌂ Clairière de l’Armistice,
of historic carriages, bicycles Route de Soissons # 10am–
! D2 ⌂ Oise £ @ n Pl de and early motor cars. 5:30pm daily (to 6pm Mar–
l’Hôtel de Ville; www.
compiegne-tourisme.fr South and east of the town, Nov) ¢ 1 Jan, 25 Dec
the old hunting grounds of ∑ musee-armistice-14-18.fr
Compiègne is where Joan the Forêt de Compiègne
of Arc was captured by the spread as far as Pierrefonds,
Burgundians in 1430. A 16th- with ample space for walks 10
century Hôtel de Ville with a and picnics beneath its oaks
towering belfry rules over the and beeches. Dunkerque
centre, but the town is most The Clairière de l’Armistice,
famous for its royal Château north of the N31, marks the ! D1 ⌂ Nord £ @ g
n Le Beffroi, rue de l’Amiral
de Compiègne. Designed as spot where the armistice of Ronarc’h; www.ot-
a summer resi dence for Louis World War I was signed on dunkerque.fr
XV, the château was completed 11 November 1918. The small
by Louis XVI, then restored by Musée Wagon de l’Armistice Though a major industrial
Napoleon and later became a has a replica of the railway port, Dunkerque has much
residence of Napoleon III and carriage where the Flemish character. Start a
Empress Eugénie. Tours of the ceremony took place,
Imperial Apartments take in which was used again
the sump tuous bedrooms of in World War II by
Napoleon I and Marie-Louise. Hitler as a humiliating
Within the château, the venue for the signing
Musée du Second Empire and of the French surrender
Musée de l’Impératrice display on 22 June 1940.
Château de Compiègne
" ⌂ Pl du Général de Gaulle
Did You Know? # Wed–Mon ¢ 1 Jan, 1 May,
25 Dec ∑ palaisde
compiegne.fr
Compiègne’s famous
railway carriage was
destroyed by the
Germans in 1945. Statue of local hero
Jean Bart standing in
Dunkerque’s old centre
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