Entente Cordiale Launch, 24 November 2003 Here is a list of some of the events which took place to honour the milestone.įranco-British Summit, London. The agreements were crucial in paving the way for Franco-British diplomatic and military cooperation in the lead-up to World War One. It actually had a wider significance in that it also represented a shift from a history overshadowed by conflict and rivalry to a sustained era of rapprochement and alliance. The Entente Cordiale was a colonial-era agreement signed by the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Lansdowne, and the French Ambassador, Paul Cambon, in London on 8 April 1904 with the aim of settling long-standing disputes between the UK and France in countries such as Morocco, Egypt, Siam, Madagascar, the New Hebrides, West and Central Africa and Newfoundland.
