Railway carriage in which the Armistice ending World War I was signed Finish:Float frame 16th January 1986

16th January 1986

Plate 3 from the book Icones rerum naturalium

and war became inevitable

Nine figures of internal eye structures under magnification

Half-length portrait of Edward Sabine looking to the viewer's right

Railway carriage in which the Armistice ending World War I was signed Finish:Float frame 16th January 1986Railway carriage in which the Armistice ending World War I was signed, c1918. The Armistice was signed in the carriage, which was the personal carriage of Allied Commander Marshal Ferdinand Foch, at Compiegne, France, on 11 November 1918. In 1940 Hitler humiliated the French by using the same carriage as the location for the signing of their surrender to Nazi Germany.