L'armistice de 1918
On Monday, November 11, 1918, at 11:00 a.m., bells rang throughout France, the fighting stopped and the Marseillaise burst forth from the trenches: an armistice had just been signed. For the first time in four years, German and French soldiers could look at each other without killing each other. La grande explication looks back at this historic day and the key steps that led to this decision, which did not, however, mark the end of the war.