6-642: The Musée Antoine Vivenel is the municipal museum of the city of Compiègne in northern France , located at 2, rue d'Austerlitz, 60200 Compiègne. It was founded in 1839, following an important gift by Antoine Vivenel, architect and art collector. The museum has one of the largest collections of Greek ceramics in France after the Louvre , some of which come from the collections of Lucien Bonaparte , Napoleon's brother and Prince of Canino , in Italy . The museum also benefits from
12-489: Is a commune in the Oise department of northern France . It is located on the river Oise , and its inhabitants are called Compiégnois . Compiègne is the seat of two cantons : Compiègne is the central commune of an urban unit with 70,699 inhabitants, and a larger commuter zone with 141,504 inhabitants as of 2017. The population data in the table and graph below refer to the commune of Compiègne proper. The Glade of
18-560: The Armistice in the Compiègne Forest was the site of the signing of two armistices; those of 11 November 1918 and 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, Marshal Foch's Carriage
24-604: The deposits of sculpted blocks from the Gallo-Roman temple of Champlieu located about twenty kilometers south-east of the city. The museum also has Egyptian artifacts (including a children's mummy) and artifacts of ancient Etruscans . 49°25′03″N 2°49′17″E / 49.4176°N 2.8213°E / 49.4176; 2.8213 This French museum-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Compi%C3%A8gne Compiègne ( French pronunciation: [kɔ̃pjɛɲ] ; Picard : Compiène )
30-509: Was displayed at a Berlin museum. Compiègne is home to the University of Technology of Compiègne (UTC), one of the top ranking engineering school in France, founded as a Technology University in 1972 to provide an alternative to the traditional " grandes écoles " for students interested in technologies and applied science. Compiègne station offers connections with Paris, Amiens, Cambrai and several regional destinations. The nearest motorway
36-632: 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
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