... the British but especially from a French perspective. That year marked the shift from memory and narrative iteration at first hand to commemoration. It analyses history and memory both from the perspective of 1905 — in the contexts of the recent Entente Cordiale with Britain and the dismantling...

... of nineteenth-century readers. The socio-historical context of Anglo-French relations, like attitudes to foreign literature, moved between attraction and distrust; politicians worked to strengthen an ‘entente cordiale’ and tourists rushed across the Channel, but there was also a wariness of French radicalism...