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The ceremony will be conducted by the French military with participation from the Irish Ambassador to France, Niall Burgess, the French ambassador to Ireland, Vincent Guérend, and descendants of Wolfe Tone, culminating in a flaring of the eternal flame under the arc. After defeat in battle against English forces in Ireland in 1690, more than 13,000 Irish soldiers and their families were exiled to France . Many joined the army of King Louis the XIV, forming an Irish Brigade, making, in the words of the Irish general Patrick Sarsfield, “another Ireland in the armies of strange lands”.
After another failed rebellion against British rule in 1798 by republican idealists, supported by more than 1,000 French soldiers landing in Ireland, again many thousands of Irish left for France.
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