FRANCE: REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY HELD IN PARIS TO HONOUR FRENCH SOLDIERS KILLED IN TWO WORLD WARS

Record ID: 646679

  • Title: FRANCE: REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY HELD IN PARIS TO HONOUR FRENCH SOLDIERS KILLED IN TWO WORLD WARS
  • Date: 11th November 2003
  • Summary: (W5) PARIS, FRANCE (NOVEMBER 11, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. TROOPS ASSEMBLED AROUND THE TRIUMPH ARCH (L'ARC DE TRIOMPHE) 0.02 2. FRENCH PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC ARRIVING AT COMMEMORATION CEREMONY 0.09 3. VARIOUS OF CEREMONY / BUGLE SOUNDING (2 SHOTS) 0.17 4. CHIRAC LAYING DOWN WREATH NEXT TO ETERNAL FLAME WHICH BURNS IN COMMEMORATION OF THOSE WHO DIED IN THE TWO WORLD WARS (2 SHOTS) 0.52 5. SCU: VETERAN FROM WORLD WAR I (the only WWI veteran attending the ceremony) 0.56 6. CHIRAC REVIVING ETERNAL FLAME 1.21 7. MV: FRENCH PRIME MINISTER JEAN-PIERRE RAFFARIN AND FRENCH DEFENCE MINISTER MICHELLE ALLIOT-MARIE STANDING TO ATTENTION 1.25 8. SV OF CHIRAC SHAKING HANDS OF WORLD WAR I VETERAN 1.51 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 26th November 2003 12:00
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  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVABSE41JOEG0GYA1X5J52M1TS3Q
  • Story Text: France pays tribute to sodiers killed in the two
    World Wars.


    The bugle that once sounded in 1918, first relaying
    news to soldiers in the trenches of the cease-fire to World
    War I, sounded again in Paris on Tuesday (November 11) at
    the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, as France and other nations
    held remembrance ceremonies in honour of their fallen
    heroes.

    On the 85th anniversary of the end of World War I,
    French President Jacques Chirac, together with other
    government officials and war veterans observed a moment's
    silence in honour of known and unknown soldiers who fought
    in the World Wars.

    Of the 8.4 million Frenchmen called to arms, 1.35
    million died, leaving 600,000 widows. The toll was 1.7
    million dead in both Germany and Russia, 900,000 in Britain
    and 116,000 in the United States. At least 20 million
    people were wounded.


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