PHILIPPE CHASSAIGNE is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Bordeaux 3, France. MICHAEL DOCKRILL is Professor of Diplomatic History at King's College, London. He has written numerous books and articles on British foreign and strategic policy, the latest being British Establishment Perspectives on France, 1936-40.

• Preface Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: ' Perfide Albion ' All the Way?; P.Chassaigne & M.Dockrill Britain and France: Some Comments on a Complex Relationship; C.Mallaby French and British Businessmen in the Nineteenth Century; J.Foreman-Peck & E.Boccaletti The End of the Anglo-French Commercial Alliance; P.Marsh Theophile Declassé and the Question of Intervention in the Anglo-Boer War (October 1899-March 1900); P.R.Venier Anglo-French Rivalry over Siam and the Treaties of April 1904; N.Brailey Elie Halevy and Anglo-French Relations, 1898-1905; F.Crouzet 'Breaking the Banque': The Great Crisis in Franco-British Central Bank Relations Between the Wars; R.Boyce British Official Perceptions of France and the French, 1936-1940; M.Dockrill The Supreme War Council and the Allied War Effort 1939-1940; W.Philpott France in Churchill's The Second World War; A.Capet The Mésentente Cordiale : Economic Relations Between France and Great Britain Since 1945; I.Lescent-Giles The 'Problem of De Gaulle', 1958-1967; R.Davis Britain, France and Economic Planning in the 1960s: The Commissariat au Plan , Role Model or Counter-Model?; J.Leruez Lionel Jospin-Tony Blair: Building a Comparison; F.C.Mougel Index

PHILIPPE CHASSAIGNE is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Bordeaux 3, France. MICHAEL DOCKRILL is Professor of Diplomatic History at King's College, London. He has written numerous books and articles on British foreign and strategic policy, the latest being British Establishment Perspectives on France, 1936-40.

• Preface Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: ' Perfide Albion ' All the Way?; P.Chassaigne & M.Dockrill Britain and France: Some Comments on a Complex Relationship; C.Mallaby French and British Businessmen in the Nineteenth Century; J.Foreman-Peck & E.Boccaletti The End of the Anglo-French Commercial Alliance; P.Marsh Theophile Declassé and the Question of Intervention in the Anglo-Boer War (October 1899-March 1900); P.R.Venier Anglo-French Rivalry over Siam and the Treaties of April 1904; N.Brailey Elie Halevy and Anglo-French Relations, 1898-1905; F.Crouzet 'Breaking the Banque': The Great Crisis in Franco-British Central Bank Relations Between the Wars; R.Boyce British Official Perceptions of France and the French, 1936-1940; M.Dockrill The Supreme War Council and the Allied War Effort 1939-1940; W.Philpott France in Churchill's The Second World War; A.Capet The Mésentente Cordiale : Economic Relations Between France and Great Britain Since 1945; I.Lescent-Giles The 'Problem of De Gaulle', 1958-1967; R.Davis Britain, France and Economic Planning in the 1960s: The Commissariat au Plan , Role Model or Counter-Model?; J.Leruez Lionel Jospin-Tony Blair: Building a Comparison; F.C.Mougel Index

PHILIPPE CHASSAIGNE is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Bordeaux 3, France. MICHAEL DOCKRILL is Professor of Diplomatic History at King's College, London. He has written numerous books and articles on British foreign and strategic policy, the latest being British Establishment Perspectives on France, 1936-40.

• Preface Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: ' Perfide Albion ' All the Way?; P.Chassaigne & M.Dockrill Britain and France: Some Comments on a Complex Relationship; C.Mallaby French and British Businessmen in the Nineteenth Century; J.Foreman-Peck & E.Boccaletti The End of the Anglo-French Commercial Alliance; P.Marsh Theophile Declassé and the Question of Intervention in the Anglo-Boer War (October 1899-March 1900); P.R.Venier Anglo-French Rivalry over Siam and the Treaties of April 1904; N.Brailey Elie Halevy and Anglo-French Relations, 1898-1905; F.Crouzet 'Breaking the Banque': The Great Crisis in Franco-British Central Bank Relations Between the Wars; R.Boyce British Official Perceptions of France and the French, 1936-1940; M.Dockrill The Supreme War Council and the Allied War Effort 1939-1940; W.Philpott France in Churchill's The Second World War; A.Capet The Mésentente Cordiale : Economic Relations Between France and Great Britain Since 1945; I.Lescent-Giles The 'Problem of De Gaulle', 1958-1967; R.Davis Britain, France and Economic Planning in the 1960s: The Commissariat au Plan , Role Model or Counter-Model?; J.Leruez Lionel Jospin-Tony Blair: Building a Comparison; F.C.Mougel Index