PARIS If the history of Anglo-French relations had begun with the signing of the Entente Cordiale on April 8, 1904, the record would not look too bad.

如果英法关系开始于1904年4月8日签署的《友好协议》，那麽两国关系的记录看起来应该不会很糟糕。

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Instead of an entente cordiale of mutual admiration, he has faced awkward questions about Afghanistan troop levels, Turkey-phobia, and the French nuclear Arsenal.

没有相互欣赏，只有关于阿富汗驻军人数、土耳其恐惧症，以及法国核武库的尴尬问题。

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Our entente cordiale was a mainstay in the past, and it will remain so in the future.

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Britain and France, whose alliance dated to the entente cordiale of 1904 and two world wars, drew opposite lessons from this humiliation.

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The 1904 Entente Cordiale brought an end to centuries of regular wars, and the two countries have been allies ever since, most notably in the two world wars.

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