182:). Badoglio consulted Mussolini, he agreed. After signing, Huntziger said to Badoglio, "Marshal, in the present, infinitely painful circumstances, the French delegation is comforted by the sincere hope that the peace which will follow shortly will allow France to begin the task of reconstruction and renewal and will create the basis for lasting relations between our two countries in the interest of Europe and of civilization." Badoglio responded, "I hope France will have a resurgence; it is a great nation with a great history, and I am certain that it will have a great future. From one soldier to another, I sincerely hope so." Mussolini remarked that the agreement was "more a political than a military armistice after only fifteen days of war—but it gives us a good document in hand".
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At 1915 hours on 24 June, at the Villa Incisa, after receiving his government's permission, General
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the previous day, landed in Rome aboard three German aircraft. The French negotiators were the same who had met with the
Germans: Huntziger, General Maurice Parisot, a peacetime friend of Badoglio's, General Jean Bergeret, Admiral Maurice Le Luc, Charles Rochat of the Foreign Ministry and Léon Nöel,
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in Berlin transmitted the German armistice terms to Rome. According to Ciano, "under these conditions, Mussolini is not prepared to make territorial demands ... and wait for the peace conference to make all our formal demands." He added that
Mussolini wished to delay the meeting with the French in
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was no more than what had been occupied up to the armistice. It contained 832 km (321 sq mi) and 28,500 inhabitants, which included the city of Menton and its 21,700 inhabitants. Italy retained the right to interfere in French territory as far as the Rhône, but it did not occupy this
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Italian government its desire to find together the basis of a lasting peace between the two countries." That same morning, Mussolini received word from Hitler that France had asked Germany for an armistice, and he went to meet Hitler at Munich, charging General Roatta, Admiral
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was signed on the evening of the 22 June, but would not come into force until the
Italians signed their own armistice. Their troops having advanced only a few kilometres, the Italians abandoned their major war aims and signed the armistice on 24 June. It came into effect early the next morning. It
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the hopes that
General Gambara would take Nice. The French had tried to play the allies off against each other; they "flattered the Germans belittled the Italian war effort". Unlike the Franco-German armistice talks, the Franco-Italian negotiations would be genuine.
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25 June. Just minutes before the signing, Huntziger had asked
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