<P> From April 1921 to April 1927, it was on exhibition in the Cour des Invalides in Paris . </P> <P> In November 1927, it was ceremonially returned to the forest in the exact spot where the Armistice was signed . Marshal Foch, General Weygand and many others watched it being placed in a specially constructed building: the Clairière de l'Armistice . </P> <P> There it remained, a monument to the defeat of the Kaiser's Germany, until 22 June 1940, when swastika - bedecked German staff cars bearing Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop and others swept into the Clairière and, in that same carriage, demanded and received the surrender armistice from France . </P> <P> During the Occupation of France, the Clairière de l'Armistice was destroyed and the carriage taken to Berlin, where it was exhibited in the Lustgarten . </P>

Where did the signing of the armistice take place