Britain/UK: A Punch cartoon depicting the sour German view on the British-French 'Entente Cordiale' of 1904 - John Bull walks off with the trollop France while Germany pretends not to care. Illustration by Jon Bernard Patridge (1861-1945), c. 1904

The Entente Cordiale was a series of agreements signed on 8 April 1904 between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic which saw a significant improvement in Anglo-French relations.

Beyond the immediate concerns of colonial expansion addressed by the agreement, the signing of the Entente Cordiale marked the end of almost a hundred years of intermittent conflict between the two states and their predecessors, and replaced the modus vivendi that had existed since the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 with a more formal agreement.

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