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The high point of cooperation came with the Treaty of Locarno in 1925, which brought Germany into good terms with France and Britain. However, relations with France became increasingly tense because Chamberlain grew annoyed that foreign minister Aristide Briand's diplomatic agenda did not have at its heart a reinvigorated Entente Cordiale. [115]
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The Franco-British Union was a proposed union in the 20th century to unite the United Kingdom and the Republic of France during the second World War. This hypothetical union would have united their militaries, government, and the foreign policy of both nations.
British victory in the Napoleonic Wars. France and Britain become informal allies in the late 19th century. Entente Cordiale in 1904. Momentary disruption of the Franco-British alliance when France is occupied by Germany during World War II. Free French Forces still fight as allies with the British.
The Entente Cordiale represented the culmination of the policy of Théophile Delcassé (France's foreign minister from 1898 to 1905), who believed that a Franco-British understanding would give France some security in Western Europe against any German system of alliances (see Triple Alliance (1882)).
France and the United Kingdom became allies, and despite occasional tensions (such as: the perception among some in France that the British abandoned France in 1940; see Battle of France and Attack on Mers-el-Kébir), remain so to the present day. A chronic point of contention is the future of the European Union.
The Battle of Nivelle - a Peninsular War battle between the French and the British armies in France in 1813. Following the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain (which united England and Scotland) in 1707, British foreign relations largely continued those of the Kingdom of England.
The Commonwealth's predecessor, the British Empire, was a notable rival to France's own empire. Even through eras of Entente cordiale , decolonisation , and political integration with the United Kingdom (the leading Commonwealth member) in the European Union , there has been conflict between French and Commonwealth interests, particularly in ...