The Germans were forced to sign an armistice (1918) in France and the French capitulated to the Germans (1940). What was the percliar setting of these two historic events?

They were both signed in Foch's railway carriage....

At 5 AM on the morning of November 11 an armistice was signed in a railroad car parked in a French forest near the front lines. - http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/armistice.htm


Hitler leaving the railroad car

The Germans took Paris and pushed on toward the west and south. Morris, drained of his energy, prayed that the ordeal would soon be over. Then the Reynaud cabinet fell. Marshal Petain addressed a request to the Germans for "peace with honor." In the dark Compiegne forest, Hitler sat in Marshal Foch's railroad car, listening to his terms being read to the French delegation. - New York Tomes Books

In the very same railway carriage in which the 1918 Armistice was signed (removed from a museum building and placed on the precise spot where it was located in 1918), Hitler sat in the same chair that Marshal Ferdinand Foch had sat in when he faced the defeated German representatives. After listening to the reading of the preamble, Hitler - in a calculated gesture of disdain to the French delegates - left the carriage, leaving the negotiations to his OKW Chief, General Wilhelm Keitel. - Wikipedia