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Versailles

Raoul Parienti, poses on his invention, the ''Freeway'', an hybrid vehicle, a mix between an electric bicycle and a scooter, during the 2013 Concours Lepine (Lepine contest) as part of the Paris' Fair at the Porte de Versailles exhibition hall in Paris, on May 11, 2013. The invention, won the ''Grand Prix Du Concours Lepine'', the third place of the Concours Lepine.

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About Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was the peace treaty which officially ended World War I between the Allied and Central Powers and the German Empire. After six months of negotiations, which took place at the Paris Peace Conference, the treaty was signed as a follow-up to the armistice signed in November 11, 1918 in the Compiègne Forest (which had put an end to the actual fighting). Although there were many provisions in the treaty, one of the more important and recognized provisions required Germany to accept full responsibility for causing the war and, under the terms of articles 231-247, make reparations to certain countries that had formed the Allies.

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