It is one of the many small farming villages nestled in the gentle rolling hills some 10 kilometers west of Compi gne . The hills around R e my have not changed in hundreds of years.
Farmers still work the land.
Archeologists, digging in front of its 13th century church, have found traces of civilization back to the time of Christ. The quiet gentleness of R e my belies the history that its citizens have seen over the years. Napoleon's forces passed its way to and from Waterloo. A short twenty-minute ride to the east is the Compi nge Forest, where twice in this century, in a railroad car, French and Germans met and signed papers to end armed conflict between their countries. The village was occupied when the French army surrendered to Hitler's forces in September of 1940.