Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Britain and France relations


Do Britain and France like each other?

If you look back on time it all started with the dates back to the Normam invasion,the Normans weren't really French, the English throne inheriting large tracts of France before France really became unified (See Eleanor of Aquitaine etc.),
clashes of religion after Henry VIII, the French wars of religion with Huguenots taking refuge in England, French support for Irish and Scottish uprisings... the fear of the French revolution, and then Napoleon, clashes over empire in the Americas, India, Africa...
Probably they don´t really like each other, but they are already have accepted the idea of living nearby. You can even say that all this Britain and France receitment is retro, and the aceptance is the new deal.