England, France, Belgium: a tribute to the dead of the Great War

There 96 years ended the First World War with the signing of the armistice on November 11, 1918. The celebrations are particularly important because it is the centenary of the beginning of the Great War.

In European capitals like London, but also in thousands of villages on the former battlefields and military cemeteries, this is an opportunity to honor the memory of the millions of men who died between 1914 and 1918 .

Wreath laying, bugle calls, time of reflection are organized to remember. Ypres in Belgium, the Marne, the Somme, Verdun, Chemin des Dames ... These are the names of the great battles in history entries by the violence of the fighting and the number of men who remained.

In France, the head of state François Hollande presided over a ceremony Tuesday morning in Paris, the Arc de Triomphe.

Then he went in the Pas-de-Calais to inaugurate a memorial to Our Lady of Loreto. The building called "Ring of Memory" contains the names of 580,000 soldiers killed in fighting in the region, irrespective of nationality.