"The ""Entente Cordiale"", signed on 8 April 1904, was a pact to resolve all outstanding issues that were outstanding between France and which other country?"
Entente Cordiale Sir Christopher Mallaby, British ambassador to France between 1993 and 1996. Entente Cordiale 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 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 thousand 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
Entente Cordiale the "second" Entente Cordiale, that is to say, the written and partly secret agreement signed in London between the two powers on 8 April 1904. The agreement was a change for both countries. France had been isolated from the other European powers, mostly as a result of the efforts of German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck to estrange France from potential allies, as it was thought that France might seek revenge for its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71. The United Kingdom had maintained a policy of "splendid isolation" on the European continent for nearly a century, intervening in continental