ARMISTICE Day is remembered with equal reverence in France as it is in the UK.
Villefranche du Périgord marked 11 November with a ceremony of touching simplicity outside its mairie, the town hall.
By late morning a small crowd had gathered close to the war memorial which is at the head of the village close to the post office.
Children were selling small badges, le Bleuet de France, worn in a similar fashion to the poppy in the UK.
Then the fire service arrived in their engine and two police officers also arrived in the gendarmerie car.
Two tricolores were then brought forward and walked to the war memorial where local school children had gathered to read out the names of the soldiers who had died in the two world wars.
There were ten children and each walked up to the microphone, read out 3 or 4 names and then went back to their classmates stood at the side of the square.
The local paper, Sud Ouest, led on the fact that there were only 36 surviving soldiers from the first world war in France, the youngest being 101 and the oldest 106.
It also highlighted an internet site that has been set up which can be searched and contains over 1.3 million names of French soldiers killed in the 1914-18 war.
The ceremony in Villefranche was brought to a close with a short speech and then the playing of the French national anthem.
What I thought was important was the part that the school children played, not only did they pay their respects, they also ensure that Armistice Day will always be marked.