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The President of France, Emmanuel Macron (right), accompanied by a soldier dressed in a contemporary way during a ceremony at Morhange up to the memory of the First World War 1918.
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In Thiepval, in the north of France, 70,000 British soldiers plunged into the First World War. The site will be visited Friday by President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Theresa May. Stock Photography.
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More than 300,000 soldiers plunged into the Battle of Verdun in 1916. Today, the battlefield is full of graves. Stock Photography.
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The dead of the First World War are honored at a ceremony in Morhange, in eastern France.
The road to Paris passes by the Western Front when French President Emmanuel Macron claims the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
Security attacks are cumbersome and can even lead to warnings against memories.
At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the leaders of the world will meet Sunday in Paris to commemorate all the victims of the First World War.
Exactly one hundred years after the cease-fire came into effect on November 11, 1918 at 11 am, President Macron will present himself at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris with US President Donald Trump, Russian Vladimir Putin and many other heads of state and government.
For Macron, the ceremony will be the culmination of a memorable week of memory, which began Sunday during his visit to Strasbourg with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
British ancestor
During the week, especially in Verdun and around the Somme, some of the most infamous battlefields are expected during the bloodbath of the Western Front 1914-1918.
For Macron, it's at the same time home.
– I was born in what we call the Somme. I have grown up with thousands of stories, memories and traces of what France has to thank its allies, said the president during a visit to Australia earlier in the year. year.
He is himself the result of allied support: his grandfather was a British soldier, George William Robertson, who remained in France after the war and married a Frenchman in Abbeville in 1919.
Souvenirs warning
The arrival of world leaders is naturally surrounded by a significant strengthening of security, reinforced by the three-year terrorist attacks next week in central Paris on November 13, 2015.
The Eurostar train company, which carries passengers under the Channel, also points out that security measures mean that even unusable weapons are illegal on board, including souvenirs made, for example, with old grenades.
"Even if you bought them at a gift shop, if you bring them, they will be confiscated and could lead to an evacuation," Eurostar welcomes his travelers, according to the AFP news agency.
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