In France, November 11 ceremonies, the highlight of the celebrations of the centenary of the First World War, began Tuesday morning on the Champs-Elysees. French President laid a wreath at the foot of the statue of Georges Clemenceau, the "father" of victory before the traditional ceremony to rekindle the flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe.
The head of state will visit the afternoon in the Pas-de-Calais, for the highlight of the day is to say, the opening on the site of Notre-Dame-de- Lorette, the "Ring of Remembrance," a memorial to 580,000 soldiers of all nationalities fell in 1914-18.
Commemorations were also held in Belgium and particularly in Ypres, a small city clothier Belgian Flanders and high places of the battles of the Great War.
Before the Menin Gate, a tribute was paid to fallen soldiers during the three extremely bloody battles that marked the city between 1914 and 1918.
