Europe remembers the dead of the Great War

It was November 11, 1918, the day finally the guns fell silent. 96 years later, Europe celebrated the armistice of World War I, under the sign of reconciliation between peoples.

First in France, where President Francois Hollande opened the ring memory. He paid tribute to 580 000 soldiers died in combat around the world in the north.

On the other side of the border, at Ypres in Belgium sounded the "Last Post", the bugle call of the armies of the Commonwealth. Belgians, but the Scots or the Irish came in large numbers to attend the ceremony.

The soldiers of the former British Empire also honored in London. 888,246 poppies very exactemen, t have been planted in the moat of the Tower, one for each man who fell in battle.