It was still dark this morning of January 28, 1921. On that day, fifty years to the day after the armistice of 1871, France hoped to turn the page on a painful conflict with Germany.
She believes she has definitely solved it with victory, the fall of the Hohenzollerns and the return of the two provinces of Alsace and Lorraine to the national fold.
This is the date chosen to definitively bury the "unknown soldier".
The ceremony is meant to be solemn but also very sober.
Neither the President of the Republic, Alexandre Millerand, nor the President of the Council, Aristide Briand, are present.
The reason is simple: the great ceremony has already taken place on November 11, 1920, the day of the pantheonization of Gambetta.
The Republic killed two birds with one stone.
But the decision having been taken in haste, the tomb had not had time to be dug under the Arc de Triomphe.
It was not until January 28.
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