With friends like these... From: The Spectator | Date: May 3, 2003| Author: Heffer, Simon | Copyright Spectator May 3, 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

The Entente Cordiale was conceived 100 years ago, but now, says Simon Heffer, France and Britain are further apart than ever

One hundred years ago, on I May 1903, King Edward VII arrived in Paris on the last stop of a European tour. It had already sparked some controversy: His Majesty's Protestant subjects were not happy that he had dropped in at the Vatican to see the 93-year-old Pope, Leo XIII. What came next, however, was to be far more radical, and would have unimaginably deep con...

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