Where is it?

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• ​less than an hour northeast of Paris

• at the edge of France's most beautiful national forest

• on the Oise River

 

 

What are the partnership's activities and opportunities?

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• school exchanges

• visits by performing groups such as Theater in the Park, the Raleigh City Symphony, NC State University Chamber Singers, the Raleigh Boychoir, Raleigh Ringers

• annual Armistice Day celebration at NCSU Memorial Bell Tower

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A little more about it …

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Compiègne is the site of 

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• the capture of Joan of Arc

• a magnificent chateau that was home to the hunt during the reign of Louis XV

• a Raleigh Roundabout

• the Forêt de Compiègne, a 55-square-mile park with an extensive network of bike paths and trails set amidst medieval villages

• the start of the famous Paris-Roubaix bicycle race

• the University of Technology of Compiègne

 

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