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Hollande marks 100th anniversary since start of World War I with appeal for peace in Gaza

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    France's President Francois Hollande, right, stands next to German President Joachim Gauck, left, as they pay respect in the crypt of the the National Monument of Hartmannswillerkop, in Wattwiller, eastern France, Sunday, August 3, 2014, to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I. On this day 100-years ago, in 1914, Germany declared war on France, at the beginning of the first global war, which centred on Europe and resulted in over nine million combatants being killed. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, Pool) (The Associated Press)

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    France's President Francois Hollande, right, stands next to German President Joachim Gauck, left, as they pay respect in the crypt of the the National Monument of Hartmannswillerkop, in Wattwiller, eastern France, Sunday, August 3, 2014, to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I. On this day 100-years ago, in 1914, Germany declared war on France, at the beginning of the first global war, which centred on Europe and resulted in over nine million combatants being killed.(AP Photo/Thibault Camus, Pool) (The Associated Press)

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    France's President Francois Hollande, right, hugs German President Joachim Gauck, left, as they pay respect in the crypt of the the National Monument of Hartmannswillerkop, in Wattwiller, eastern France, Sunday, August 3, 2014, to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I. On this day 100-years ago, in 1914, Germany declared war on France, at the beginning of the first global war, which centred on Europe and resulted in over nine million combatants being killed.(AP Photo/Thibault Camus, Pool) (The Associated Press)

PARIS – French President Francois Hollande has commemorated the 100th anniversary of World War I with an appeal to players in the Gaza conflict to put animosities aside — just as France and Germany have done.

Hollande gave an impassioned speech Sunday in Vieil Armand in Alsace, marking Germany's declaration of war on France on Aug. 3, 1914. He was joined by German President Joachim Gauck — the first time Germany's head of state has attended the event.

Hollande remembered the 30,000 men killed around Vieil Armand, known in German as Hartmannswillerkopf, but pointed out that France and Germany "who were regarded as hereditary enemies," reconciled.

He appealed to the world to use Franco-German peace as a lesson in peacemaking and "to stop the suffering of the civilian population," in Gaza.