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Compiègne
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Com·piègne  (kmp-yn, kô-pyny)
A city of northern France on the Oise River northeast of Paris. The armistice ending World War I was signed in a railroad car in a nearby forest on November 11, 1918. Adolf Hitler demanded that the same car be used for the formal surrender of France in World War II on June 22, 1940. Population: 41,700.
Compiègne (French) [kɔ̃pjɛɲ]
n
(Placename) a city in N France, on the Oise River: scene of the armistice at the end of World War I (1918) and of the Franco-German armistice of 1940. Pop.: 44 703 (1990)


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