France: French caricature of the British-French 'Entente Cordiale', with King Edward VII of Great Britain and a woman representing France throwing rocks at German ducks. Illustration by John Grand-Carteret (1850-1927), 1906

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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