[ noun ] a city in northeastern France to the east of Paris; scene of the coronation of most French kings; site of the unconditional German surrender in 1945 at the end of World War II <noun.location>
It is then turned over successively to controllers in Maastricht, the Netherlands; Brussels; Rheims, France; Paris; Marseille; and Barcelona.
Maurice Vaisse of the University of Rheims observed, he condemned Yalta almost at once for settling the fate of Europe "without Europe and without France, despite the protests of the Paris government."