Editing Compiègne (section)

==Sights==
[[File:Compiegne from the UTC.jpg|thumb|View of Compiègne]]
[[File:Compiegne-Noyon Hospital.jpg|thumb|Compiegne-Noyon Hospital]]
The [[Hôtel de Ville, Compiègne|Hôtel de Ville]] (town hall) was completed in 1530.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://foret-compiegne.solexmillenium.fr/centre-ville-compiegne.php |title=Compiègne: La Place de l'Hôtel de Ville|publisher=la Forêt de Compiègne|access-date=10 January 2025}}</ref>

===Museums===
* [[Château de Compiègne]] - the castle itself, and museums of the [[Second French Empire]] and of motoring and tourism within its walls
* [[Musée Antoine Vivenel]]
* Museum of historic figurines
* Memorial of internment and deportation

===Compiègne Forest===
{{Main article|Compiègne Forest}}
The [[Glade of the Armistice]] in the [[Compiègne Forest]] was the site of the signing of two armistices; those of [[Armistice of 11 November 1918|11 November 1918]] and [[Armistice of 22 June 1940|22 June 1940]]. Hitler specifically chose the location of the second, and had the original signing carriage moved from Paris to Compiègne, as an irony for the defeated French.

The site still houses several memorials to the 1918 armistice, including a copy of the original railway carriage. The original, [[Compiègne Wagon|Marshal Foch's Carriage]] was taken to [[Germany]] as a trophy of victory following the second armistice. Various rumors about what happened to this railway-carriage thereafter, have flourished ever since. Some believe it was destroyed by the [[SS]] in [[Thuringia]] in April 1945; others say this happened in [[Berlin]], but most likely was it destroyed during an allied air-raid on Berlin. The latter version seems most plausible, since [[Ferdinand Foch]]'s carriage actually was displayed at a Berlin museum.<ref>Moved to Berlin - Steven Budiansky, "The Complete story of Codebreaking during WW2",{{ISBN|0-684-85932-7}}, page 136</ref><ref>Moved to Berlin, and there destroyed in an air-raid - Brian Hanley, "Planning for Conflict in the 21st Century", page 116" available here [https://books.google.com/books?id=UPOaw_-o7KUC&dq=Air+raid+destroyed+Foch%27s+carriage&pg=PA116]</ref><ref>Also [[William L Shirer]] in his "[[The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich]]" (unknown ISBN) states it was destroyed during a bombing raid on Berlin</ref>