English-French relations and the entente-cordiale
I was pleased to come across two articles in French newspapers this week that touched on the relationship between France and England, and the French and the English. The first was celebrating the fact that the ‘entente-cordiale’ between the two countries, already long-established, had developed in recent times in an ‘indestructible fashion’.
1000 Years of Annoying the French
I don’t often have time to read books unless they relate to something tediously technical so I was pleased this week to have time to read a book I was sent a while ago – ‘1000 years of Annoying the French’ by Stephen Clarke. I understand that the author has had a great deal of [...]
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