Tribute paid to millions killed in World War I on Armistice Day

Church bells tolled and officials laid wreaths across Europe on Armistice Day to pay tribute to the millions of soldiers killed during World War I.

Thousands of people lined the Champs Elysees boulevard in Paris to see President François Hollande lay a wreath at the Arc de Triomphe, where an eternal flame burns aside France’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Smaller ceremonies were being held across France, where church bells toll to mark the hour when the armistice was signed on November 11, 1918, to mark the end of hostilities on the war’s Western Front, and memorials list the names of each village’s dead.