Visiting the Museum of the Great War in Seine-et-Marne, Monday November 11, 2024, Michel Barnier estimated that this public holiday made it possible to keep “the memory of this tragic story”.
Michel Barnier was visiting Meaux, in Seine-et-Marne. He was invited to the inauguration of the reconstruction of a trench at the Museum of the Great War, symbolically organized on Monday November 11.“Honoring the memory of these fighters is first of all having the memory of this tragic story, which is why I am happy to meet you on this November 11, a public holiday to which we are attached,” declared the Prime Minister during his speech at the museum, broadcast on BFMTV.
But recently, this public holiday is no longer unanimous: a little earlier in the day, Jean-François Copé, mayor of the city of Meaux and former minister under Jacques Chirac, estimated that there was “a thousand ways to commemorate without not working”, at the microphone of France Inter. “Or, that means that we have 65 million French people who are at the foot of the war memorials on November 11. It would be known“, he added.
“November 11 is untouchable”
“I think that everything that allows our country to show that we can work harder to participate in the recovery effort is going in the right direction.” had also declared Laurent Saint-Martin, Minister of the Budget, questioned on the subject last October on TF1. Serge Barcellini, president of Souvenir Français, an association which maintains tombs and monuments to the Dead and participates in commemorations, for his part affirmed on France Bleu that November 11 was “untouchable”.
This public holiday commemorates the signing of the armistice between the Allied countries and Germany, ratified on November 11, 1918 at 5:15 a.m., in the carriage of a train in the Compiègne forest. This is the act that will put an end to the fighting of the First World War, which left 18.6 million dead.
published on November 11 at 8:49 p.m., Auguste Breton, 6Medias
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