Clairiere de l'Armistice, Compiegne

[Bob Chandler]

We've got 3 days in Paris coming up soon, have wanted to visit the Armistice site for some time, am trying to work out whether it's a feasible day trip by public transport. Compiegne doesn't look that far on the map but of course it's getting out to the forest that's the problem. Anyone been?

Charles

[birchp]

Charles, train timetable Paris to Compiegne just over the hour

http://www.ulb.ac.be/soco/cadeps/PSMsympo/P2C.html

Paul

[Martin Bennitt]

Unsure about buses but the Clairière is only six kilometres from Compiègne, so you could take a taxi at no great cost, or even walk it.

cheers Martin B

[Martin Bennitt]

..... and don'f forget, like most French national museums, it's closed on Tuesdays

cheers Martin B

[Chris_Baker]

It's well worth a visit. The clearing, several monuments, the railway carriage, small museum and shop. The town of Compiegne itself is a delight and one of my favourites.

[Martin Bennitt]

A long time since I went. Must pay another visit, as it's not so far from chez moi. Are the stereoscope viewing machines (bit like what the butler saw) still there?

cheers Martin B

[paul guthrie]

The town has a great palace of Louis Napoleon. I once stayed in a hotel there and was amazed a woman who worked there had worked as a nanny in a really remote Eastern Kentucky coal town near where I am from.

The armistice site is quite interesting, of course the train car is a duplicate since the Nazis blew it up to keep it from being used as a surrender site a 3d time. There is more than one original monument, one ground level one near the rr car says here perished the criminal pride of the German Empire crushed by the free peoples it sought to enslave.

Equally interesting is one made of Alsatian sandstone with a sword through a Prussian eagle. The Germans blew it up in 1940 but retained the pieces and it was easy to reassemble.