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Cover Title Copyright Dedication About the Author List of Illustrations List of Maps List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: STRUGGLE CHAPTER 1 : Britain Joins Europe THE SUN KING WILLIAM OF ORANGE EXILES: HUGUENOTS AND JACOBITES Britain at the Heart of Europe, 1688–1748 MALBROUCK S’EN VA-T-EN GUERRE FONTENOY, 11 MAY 1745 France and the Young Chevalier, 1744–6 SYMBOLS The End of the Beginning ON HIS MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY’S SERVICE Money: Waging War with Gold Britain: ‘Breaking windows with guineas’ France: The Insolvent Landlord CHAPTER 2 : Thinking, Pleasing, Seeing PORTRAYING THE OTHER: RAPIN AND HAMILTON Voyages of Intellectual Discovery Travellers’ Tales LE BLANC’S ENGLAND MRS THRALE AND MADAME DU BOCAGE Fashionable Feelings: The Age of Pamela and Julie THE SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY THE OTHER PAMELA Love, Hate and Ambivalence DRAWING A LESSON GARRICK’S FRENCH DANCERS The French and Shakespeare: The Age of Voltaire CHAPTER 3 : The Sceptre of the World SUGAR AND SLAVES THE WEALTH OF THE INDIES ‘A FEW ACRES OF SNOW’ The Seven Years War, 1756–63 PERFIDIOUS ALBION ENCOURAGING THE OTHERS Pitt and Choiseul Years of Victory, 1757–63 DEAD HEROES Taking Possession of the Globe LANGUAGE: THE CHALLENGE TO FRENCH ASCENDANCY CHAPTER 4 : The Revenger’s Tragedy Choiseul Plans Revenge Taking the Great out of Britain: The Second War for America, 1776–83 ENTER FIGARO REVOLUTIONARY ARISTOCRATS SAVING CAPTAIN ASGILL The Biter Bit, 1783–90 CRICKET: THE TOUR OF ’89 CHAPTER 5 : Ideas and Bayonets Blissful Dawn REFLECTING ON REVOLUTION CANNIBALS AND HEROES Jour de gloire EXILES: THE REVOLUTION Internal Injuries From Unwinnable War to Uneasy Peace ‘THE FIRST KISS THIS TEN YEARS!’ Culture Wars CHAPTER 6 : Changing the Face of the World Napoleonic Visions Earth’s Best Hopes? British Resistance, 1803–5 NO COMMON WAR RELICS OF WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN The Continental System versus the Cavalry of St George CAPTIVES From the Tagus to the Berezina, 1807–12 Invasion, 1813–14 LE CIMETIÈRE DES ANGLAIS The End of the Hundred Years War, 1815 ECHOES OF WATERLOO Part I: Conclusions and Disagreements Interlude: The View from St Helena PART II: COEXISTENCE CHAPTER 7 : Plucking the Fruits of Peace Our Friends the Enemy THE BRITISH IN PARIS FAST FOOD À L’ANGLAISE PAU: BRITAIN IN BÉARN Romantic Encounters THE FRENCH AND SHAKESPEARE: THE ROMANTICS King Cotton, Queen Silk NAVVIES AND ‘KNOBSTICKS’ Fog and Misery Ally or ‘Anti-France’? CHAPTER 8 : The War That Never Was A Beautiful Dream: The First Entente Cordiale , 1841–6 ‘God bless the narrow sea’: From Revolution to Empire, 1848–52 THE PRINCE-PRESIDENT’S FIRST LADY EXILES: HUGO AND THE STORMY VOICES OF FRANCE ‘Such a faithful ally’, 1853–66 COMRADES IN ARMS BRUMAGEM BOMBS FOR BONAPARTE Tales of Two Cities ENGLISHNESS IN PARIS: THE DRESSMAKER AND THE WHORE LONDON THROUGH FRENCH EYES Spectators of disaster, 1870–71 EXILES: AFTER THE ‘TERRIBLE YEAR’ CHAPTER 9 : Decadence and Regeneration Into the Abysm PILGRIMS OF PLEASURE: THE PRINCE OF WALES AND OSCAR WILDE DEPRAVITY AND CORRUPTION Regeneration: Power and Empire THE TUNNEL: FALSE DAWN EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION Putting Colour into French Cheeks Food and Civilization On the Brink, 1898–1902 EXILES: OSCAR WILDE AND EMILE ZOLA IMAGINING THE ENEMY ‘VIVE NOTRE BON ÉDOUARD!’ Part II: Conclusions and Disagreements Interlude: Perceptions Origins: Race, Land, Climate Religion, Immorality and Perfidy Nature versus Civilization Masculinity and Femininity Materialism, Exploitation and Greed PART III: SURVIVAL CHAPTER 10 : The War to End Wars From Entente to Alliance, 1904–14 The British and the Defence of France, 1914 Les Tommy and the French ‘BENE AND HOT’ ‘LE FOOT’ Stalemate and Slaughter, 1915–17 The Road to Pyrrhic Victory, 1918 Remembrance CHAPTER 11 : Losing the Peace Paris and Versailles, 1918–19: A Tragedy of Disappointment CLEMENCEAU: A DISILLUSIONED ANGLOPHILE THE POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF MR KEYNES Estrangement, 1919–25 Mixed Feelings, 1919–39 FROM ENGLISHMAN IN PARIS TO FRENCHMAN IN HOLLYWOOD Towards the Dark Gulf, 1929–39 CHAPTER 12 : Finest Hours, Darkest Years The ‘Phoney War’, September 1939-May 1940 The Real Disaster, May–June 1940 DUNKIRK AND THE FRENCH, 26 MAY–4 JUNE ‘ NO LONGER TWO NATIONS’: 16 JUNE 1940 MERS-EL-KÉBIR Churchill and de Gaulle Bearing the Cross of Lorraine Feeding the Flame Liberation, 1943–4 Part III: Conclusions and Disagreements Between the Wars The Second World War Interlude: The French and Shakespeare: The Other French Revolution PART IV: REVIVAL CHAPTER 13 : Losing Empires, Seeking Roles European Visions, 1945–55 Imperial Debacle, 1956 European Revenge, 1958–79 Satisfactions of Grandeur and Pleasures of Decline JE T’AIME, MOI NON PLUS CHAPTER 14 : Ever Closer Disunion A French or British Europe? Napoleon versus Adam Smith FRANCE AND THE FALKLANDS WAR THATCHER AND THE REVOLUTION, 1989 So Near and Yet So Far THE TUNNEL: BREAKTHROUGH LANGUAGE: VOTING WITH YOUR TONGUE Size Matters THE NON-IDENTICAL TWINS Europe’s Warrior Nations BANGS AND BUCKS DESPERATE TO BE FRIENDS: CELEBRATING THE ENTENTE CORDIALE, 1904–2004 2005: Déjà Vu All Over Again Part IV: Conclusions and Disagreements PICKING UP THE THREADS Notes Bibliography

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