That Sweet Enemy brings both British wit (Robert Tombs is a British historian) and French panache (Isabelle Tombs is a French historian) to bear on three centuries of the history of Britain and France. From Waterloo to Chirac s slandering of British cooking, the authors chart this cross-channel entanglement and the unparalleled breadth of cultural, economic, and political influence it has wrought on both sides, illuminating the complex and sometimes contradictory aspects of this relationship rivalry, enmity, and misapprehension mixed with envy, admiration, and genuine affection and the myriad ways it has shaped the modern world.
Written with wit and elegance, and illustrated with delightful images and cartoons from both sides of the Channel, That Sweet Enemy is a unique and immensely enjoyable history, destined to become a classic.
That Sweet Enemy: Britain and France: the History of a Love-hate Relationship
Table of contents
List of Illustrations List of Maps List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction
PART I: STRUGGLE
Chapter 1: Britain Joins Europe The Sun King William of Orange Exiles: Huguenots and Jacobites Britain at the Heart of Europe, 1688 1748 Malbrouck s en va-t-en guerre Fontenoy, May 11, 1745 France and the Young Chevalier, 1744 46 Symbols The End of the Beginning On His Most Christian Majesty s Service Money: Waging War with Gold Britain: Breaking windows with guineas Blowing Bubbles France: The Insolvent Landlord
Chapter 2: Thinking, Pleasing, Seeing Portraying the Other: Rapin and Hamilton Voyages of Intellectual Discovery Travellers Tales Le Blanc s England Mrs. Thrale and Madame Du Bocage Fashionable Feelings: The Age of Pamela and Julie The Sincerest Form of Flattery The Other Pamela Love, Hate and Ambivalence Drawing a Lesson Garrick s French Dancers The French and Shakespeare: The Age of Voltaire
Chapter 3: The Sceptre of the World Sugar and Slaves The Wealth of the Indies A few acres of snow The Seven Years War, 1756 63 Perfidious Albion Encouraging the Others Pitt and Choiseul Years of Victory, 1757 63 Dead Heroes Taking Possession of the Globe Language: The Challenge to French Ascendancy
Chapter 4: The Revenger s Tragedy Choiseul Plans Revenge Taking the Great out of Britain: The Second War for America, 1776 83 Enter Figaro Revolutionary Aristocrats Saving Captain Asgill The Biter Bit, 1783 90 Cricket: The Tour of 89
Chapter 5: Ideas and Bayonets Blissful Dawn Reflecting on Revolution Cannibals and Heroes Jour de Gloire Exiles: The Revolution Internal Injuries From Unwinnable War to Uneasy Peace The First Kiss This Ten Years! Culture Wars
Chapter 6: Changing the Face of the World Napoleonic Visions Earth s Best Hopes? British Resistance, 1803 5 No Common War Relics of What Might Have Been The Whale and the Elephant The Continental System versus the Cavalry of St. George Captives From the Tagus to the Berezina, 1807 12 Invasion, 1813 14 Le Cimetiere des Anglais The End of the Hundred Years War, 1815 Echoes of Waterloo
Part I: Conclusions and Disagreements Origins Culture Politics The Economy Europe The World Interlude: The View from St. Helena
PART II: COEXISTENCE
Chapter 7: Plucking the Fruits of Peace Our Friends the Enemy The British in Paris Fast Food a l anglaise Pau: Britain in Béarn Romantic Encounters The French and Shakespeare: The Romantics King Cotton, Queen Silk Navvies and Knobsticks Fog and Misery Ally or Anti-France ?
Chapter 8: The War That Never Was A Beautiful Dream: The First Entente Cordiale, 1841 46 God bless the narrow sea : From Revolution to Empire, 1848 52 The Prince-President s First Lady
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