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1843: Queen Victoria visits King Louis-Philippe, who speaks of an “entente cordiale”
Queen Victoria’s visit to King Louis-Philippe at the Château d'Eu in Normandy in September 1843 signalled that Franco-British relations were improving. The Queen was the first British monarch to go to France since Henry VIII almost 300 years earlier, and during her visit Louis-Philippe spoke of an “entente cordiale” between the two kingdoms.Three years earlier, the two countries had been on the brink of war over the Far East question when tensions between the Ottoman Empire (supported by Britain) and Egytp (supported by France) soared, and social resentment had been running high.

Scène de la première entente cordiale : la jeune reine Victoria et le roi Louis-Philippe (Revue franco-anglaise, 1910)
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1898: The Fashoda crisis
In 1898 the crisis over Fashoda (a small town in the Upper Nile region) pitted the British and French imperial powers against each other as they sought to take control of the region and have their zone of influence there recognized. Following the arrival in Sudan of British troops led by General Kitchener, and seeing that the balance of military and diplomatic power lay in the United Kingdom’s favour, French troops (led by Major Marchand) evacuated Fashoda. Several months after the crisis was resolved, “antagonisms” between Major Marchand and Lord Kitchener continued to make the headlines, as on the cover of the Petit Illustré Amusant.

An image of antagonism. Major Marchand - Lord Kitchener, Le Petit Illustré Amusant (10 June 1899)
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1843: Queen Victoria visits King Louis-Philippe, who speaks of an “entente cordiale”

Scène de la première entente cordiale : la jeune reine Victoria et le roi Louis-Philippe (Revue franco-anglaise, 1910)

1898: The Fashoda crisis

An image of antagonism. Major Marchand - Lord Kitchener, Le Petit Illustré Amusant (10 June 1899)