'Entente Cordiale', c.1904 (colour litho)

Child carrying a plate of oranges with the Tricolore flag of France and the Union Jack of Great Britain, symbolic of the 'Entente Cordiale' ('Cordial Understanding') signed in 1904 between the French Republic and the United Kingdom; this term had been in use since the 1840's to describe good relations between between the two countries and was reinforced in 1904 by a series of formal agreements of mutual support signed by both French and British Governments; term now generally used to refer to friendship and a recognition of peaceful co-existence after centuries of war between the two countries; illustration from a promotional card for the Parisian Department Store 'Le Bon Génie';