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Armistice Day builds Franco-German ties

A German chancellor is to participate in the commemoration of Armistice Day on French soil for the first time since the end of World War I.

Angela Merkel will be in France just days after French President Nicolas Sarkozy was in Berlin for the anniversary of the wall coming down.

Emma Jane Kirby reports from Paris.

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