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11 NOVEMBER – Whence this feast marked by a public holiday ? What is there to discover on the date of 11 November 1918 and the armistice ? What other facts revolve around this event ? Linternaute.com makes you travel back in time.

In France, the 11 November marks a day holiday and a possible bridge, but it is above all to celebrate the signing of a historic treaty, the Armistice of 1918 between Allied forces and Germany at Rethondes (OISE). This day symbolizes since 97 years peace, as an outcome of the first world war (the great war). L'”Armistice of 11 November 1918″ officially reflected the victory of the allies and the German defeat. On the same day, l ’ Emperor of Austria Charles I renounce the throne… putting an end to more of 600 years of reign : that of the Habsburgs on the Austria. On the other hand, the 11 November is also refers to the feast of Martin, patron saint of the Franks since 507. In this article, Linternaute.com informs you on the date of 11 November and all facts which are linked, their origin, their history and their significance.

Also called remembrance day, the 315th day of the year (316e in the case of leap year as is the case in 2016) results in the unique “bridge” the month of November, weekend extended to the key for employees as for the self-employed. En 2016, the 11 November falls a Friday and not a Wednesday as in 2015. En 2017, the holiday of 11 November is not really a since it will fall Saturday. The following year, the 11 November will be a Sunday. If the 11 November celebrates the anniversary of 1918, This day also pays tribute to all the dead for France under the law of 28 February 2012.

11 November 1918 : history and origins
If the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk helped the Germany, by causing the surrender of the Russia, to concentrate his army on the Western front, the German offensives in June and July 1918 are a failure... and the reinforcement of the allies (Americans and British) It will be fatal. The retreat of the German forces begins in August, with heavy losses on all Belgian front. As early as September, the German staff informed Emperor Guillaume II has more hope of winning the war. But this last, as well as military leaders, are not ready to assume the defeat : It will take another two months to make the Armistice “negotiated” and signed. But it smells like the end. In August 1918 starts a Franco-British offensive which will stop more. In his memoirs, Erich Ludendorff, general in Chief of the German armies, spoke from the date of 8 August as of a “day of mourning of the German army” : He knows at this time that the war is lost for good.

At the beginning of the fall, the armistices of the Eastern fronts (the 29 September 1918 for the Bulgaria ; the 30 October 1918 for the ottoman empire and the 3 November for Austria-Hungary), Although less well known as one of 11 November at Rethondes, will have serious consequences. They contribute to the defeat of the Germany and cause the fall of three empires. Not to mention the discord they create between defeated nations, victorious (as the Czechs, Serbs, Romanians, Polish) and those who, is being rallied too late to the winners, do not benefit from the independence (Ukrainians, Slovak...).

Oriental armistices create anyway a “breccia” the Germany will not be able to fill. In October, Ludendorff resigns and mutinies broke out across the Rhine. In parallel, US president Wilson is responsible for taking in hand the return of peace, in the same vein that the 14 points he had proposed in January in his shock. Notes are exchanged with the Germans on the modalities. The 5 November, a formal request for armistice by the German general staff manages to France in the form of message morse. The historic date is finally set six days later. The end of the war will be recorded in a car parked near the front and Allied headquarters.

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