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Šubrtová, Marcela. "The Anglo-French Rapprochement and the Question of Morocco." West Bohemian Historical Review 2 (2016): 213–241 online; Taylor, A.J.P. The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848–1918 (1954) online free; Williamson, Samuel R. The politics of grand strategy: Britain and France prepare for war, 1904–1914 (1990).
In December 1939, Jean Monnet of the French Economic Mission in London became the head of the Anglo-French Co-ordinating Committee, which coordinated a joint planning of the two countries' wartime economies. The Frenchman hoped for a postwar United States of Europe and saw an Anglo-French political union as a step toward his goal. [1]
The 1904–05 French Rugby Union Championship was won by SBUC, who defeated Stade Français in the final. The 1904–05 championship was the second consecutive time the two teams had met in the final match, with SBUC victorious on both occasions.
The French Rugby Union Championship of first division 1909–04 was won by SBUC that beat Stade Français in ... March 1904: SBUC: 10-3: FC Lyon: Final. 27 March 1904 ...
23 February - First launch of a French diesel-powered submarine, Aigrette. [2] [3] 8 April - Entente cordiale, a series of agreements signed between the United Kingdom and France. [4] [5] Global cosmetics companies are founded in Paris: Coty, by François Coty, [6] and Garnier, by Alfred Amour Garnier. [7]
The Union of French Athletic Sports Societies (French: Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques (USFSA)) was a former sports governing body in France.During the 1890s and early 1900s it organised numerous sports including athletics, cycling, field hockey, fencing, croquet, and swimming.
In 1898, Laos was fully integrated into the French Indochina union that was created in 1887 by unifying French possessions in Vietnam and Cambodia. A colonial governor was later installed in Vientiane and Laos was reorganised from two provinces (Haut-Laos and Bas-Laos) to ten provinces.
The Seven Years' War was going badly for the French, so the chief minister, Etienne François, duc de Choiseul pursued a dual track policy of attempting to bring Spain into a third pacte de famille or sue Britain and its allies for peace. Charles III was worried about the vulnerability of the overseas portion of his empire, and also worried ...