Token - Edward VII L’entente Cordiale

Token - Edward VII (L’entente Cordiale) - obverseToken - Edward VII (L’entente Cordiale) - reverse

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Features

Location United Kingdom (United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies)
King Edward VII (1901-1910)
Type Souvenir medals › Commemorative souvenir
Year 1908
Composition Bronze
Weight 1.62 g
Diameter 16.13 mm
Thickness 1.17 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
55193

Obverse

Kings head right surrounded by legend

Script: Latin

Lettering: EDWARDUS VII DEI GRATIA REX *

Reverse

Crossed flags surrounded by legend and date

Script: Latin

Lettering:
L’ENTENTE CORDIALE
* 1908 *

Edge

Plain

Token - Edward VII (L’entente Cordiale) -  obverse

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Entente cordiale

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A 1904 French postcard showing Britannia and Marianne dancing together, symbolizing the newborn cooperation between the two countries.
 

Signed
8 April 1904

Signatories
 France
 United Kingdom

Languages
French, English


Foreign alliances of France



Frankish-Abbasid alliance 8th–9th c.
Franco-Scottish alliance 1295–1560
Franco-Polish alliance 1524–1526
Franco-Hungarian alliance 1528–1552
Franco-Ottoman alliance 16–19th c.
Anglo-French Alliance 1657–1660
American Indians 17–18th c.
Anglo-French Alliance 1716–1731
Franco-Spanish alliance 1733–1792
Franco-Prussian alliance 1741–1756
Franco-Austrian Alliance 1756–1792
Franco-Indian alliances 18th c.
Franco-Vietnamese alliance 1777–1820
Franco-American alliance 1778–1794
Franco-Persian alliance 1807–1809
Franco-Prussian alliance 1812
Franco-Russian Alliance 1892–1917
Entente Cordiale 1904–present
Franco-Polish alliance 1921–1940
Franco-Italian Alliance 1935
Franco-Soviet Treaty 1936–1939
NATO 1949–present
WEU (1948) 1954–2011
Regional relations
France–Asia relations
France–Americas relations
France–Africa relations
 

Events leading to World War I


Triple Alliance
1882

Franco-Russian Alliance
1894

Anglo-German naval arms race
1898–1912

Entente cordiale
1904

First Moroccan Crisis
1905–06

Anglo-Russian Entente
1907

Bosnian crisis
1908–09

Agadir Crisis
1911

Italo-Turkish War
1911–12

Balkan Wars
1912–13

Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
1914

July Crisis
1914
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The Entente Cordiale (French pronunciation: ​[ɑ̃tɑ̃t kɔʁdjal]) was a series of agreements signed on 8 April 1904 between the United Kingdom and France, marking the start of the alliance against Germany and Austria-Hungary.[1] 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 with a more formal agreement. The Entente Cordiale, along with the Anglo-Russian Entente and the Franco-Russian Alliance, later became part of the Triple Entente among Britain, France, and Russia.[2]

The agreement settled many long-standing issues. France recognized British control over Egypt, while Britain reciprocated regarding France in Morocco. France gave up its exclusive fishery rights on the French Shore of Newfoundland and in return received an indemnity and territory in The Gambia (Senegal) and Nigeria. Britain acknowledged the French customs régime in Madagascar. The respective spheres of influence were defined in Siam (Thailand).[3]
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