In this Oct. 19, 2018 photo, a visitor stands by the train carriage in which the armistice of the Nov. 11, 1918 was signed, in the forest of Compiegne, north of Paris. The French and German ...

We needed a cinematic throughline to keep driving the story forward. After my husband and I spent a week in the Compiègne Forest visiting the armistice train carriage, we found it.

Bernard Letemps, curator of the Armistice Memorial in Compiegne, says this grand old carriage has been kept exactly as it was for future generations.

Both sides put down their weapons, and signed an armistice in a train carriage brought to the battlefield specifically for this purpose.

The French and German leaders this weekend will jointly visit the remains of the train carriage where the armistice ending World War I was signed on Nov. 11, 1918.

The interior of the train carriage in which the armistice of November 11, 1918 was signed, in the forest of Compiegne, north of Paris, October 19, 2018. AP Photo ...

Both sides put down their weapons, and signed an armistice in a train carriage brought to the battlefield specifically for this purpose.

This time, Merkel will have the French president by her side as she visits what remains of the Wagon of Compiegne, the carriage-turned-office where the Allies and Germany signed the armistice on ...

WHEN the French, British and German entourages met in 1918 to sign the Armistice that would end the Great War, they met in a railway carriage in the forests of Compiegne, northern France.

In this Oct. 19, 2018 photo, a visitor stands by the train carriage in which the armistice of the Nov. 11, 1918 was signed, in the forest of Compiegne, north of Paris.

In this Oct. 19, 2018 photo, a visitor stands by the train carriage in which the armistice of the Nov. 11, 1918 was signed, in the forest of Compiegne, north of Paris.