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Anglo-French relations
The best
of enemies
Histories of Anglo-French relations in the
18th and 19th centuries are usually dominated
by con!ict. But, say Renaud Morieux and
Fabrice Bensimon, the two peoples had
more in common than the bloodletting of
the Napoleonic Wars would suggest
INTERVIEW BY ELLIE CAWTHORNE
BRIDGEMAN Prime Minister Henry Addington and Napoleon
draw swords in James Gillray’s 1803 print
Armed Heroes. These two men’s antipathy
wasn’t always shared by the wider population
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