Agenda: This week's big issues - 100 YEARS OF SHAKING HANDS CROSS- CHANNEL PARTY-GOING KICKS OFF AS ENGLAND AND FRANCE CELEBRATE THE CENTENARY OF THE ENTENTE CORDIALE

The Independent on Sunday | April 4, 2004| | Copyright

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are paying a state visit to France this week. The entente was the breakthrough that ended Britain's late Victorian policy of "splendid isolation" and led to the formation, with Russia, of the Triple Alliance. Signed in London on 8 April 1904, it aimed to settle global disputes. The agreement prepared the way for Franco-British co-operation before the First World War.

According to the Government-backed website specially created for the anniversary (www.entente-cordiale.org), it is "an important ...

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