1) The problem is that most Britons and French know "entente cordiale" only as a phrase - and they do not really believe it.

2) The growing entente cordiale between Japan and India is based on the understanding that united they contain China and divided they are contained by China and its allies, North Korea and Pakistan.

3) Electoral pacts would not work, but an entente cordiale might.

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

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

6) 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.