A VERY ENTENTE CORDIALE
© renault Today is the 300th anniversary of the Act of Union between Scotland and England and, coincidentally, it was announced yesterday that some papers have ‘recently’ come to light about the possibility of another strange union: that of post-war France and Britain; to the point even of sharing a monarch (ours obviously, since they violently beheaded theirs). Figurez-vous!
A British Cabinet paper from the time reads: “When the French Prime Minister, Monsieur Mollet, was recently in London, he raised with the Prime Minister the possibility of a union between the United Kingdom and France”. And yet, despite our famous love-hate relationship, we seem to rub along together quite well most of the time without all these political machinations. In fact, didn’t we build a little tunnel in order to make it easier to reach each other? Or maybe that was so that we Brits could get to their nice wine and food and weather.
Anyway, the next year along came the EEC and the rest is, indeed, history.
A British Cabinet paper from the time reads: “When the French Prime Minister, Monsieur Mollet, was recently in London, he raised with the Prime Minister the possibility of a union between the United Kingdom and France”. And yet, despite our famous love-hate relationship, we seem to rub along together quite well most of the time without all these political machinations. In fact, didn’t we build a little tunnel in order to make it easier to reach each other? Or maybe that was so that we Brits could get to their nice wine and food and weather.
Anyway, the next year along came the EEC and the rest is, indeed, history.
posted by yatje at 6:40 am
4 Comments:
But the English themselves are no stranger to violently beheading their king. In fact, they started the trend...
WHAT?! You mean to tell me that we once chopped off our King's head? You'll be telling me next that we had a revolution, anon, or that at one point France ruled part of England or even England ruled part of France! Incroyable!
It appears there was a not-so-glorious revolution, which put that Dutchman on the throne. And England did rule part of France, but before that, France had ruled all of England...
Anyway, shouldn't it be "A very cordiale entente" or "An entente very cordiale"? ;-)
Stop trying to obfuscate by telling me where the intensifier should go, anon. The position of your adjectives makes no sense at all! ;p
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