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Using unpublished French and English sources, Philip Mansel shows that the Francophilia of the Prince Regent equalled the Anglophilia of Louis XVIII. The Regent decorated his palaces like French palaces, promised Louis XVIII not to make peace until he had restored the Bourbons to their throne, and organised a triumphant reception for Louis XVIII in London in 1814. Louis XVIII knew English history and literature ‘perfectly’, called the interests of the two countries ‘inseparable’, followed Castlereigh’s secret advice about his manifesto to France in 1813, and welcomed British visitors to Paris after 1814 (such as Soane, Nash and Walter Scott). Throughout the nineteenth century Paris attracted thousands of British residents, while, long before Palmerston used the term ‘entente cordiale’ in 1831, the two countries acted as political and military allies in Europe.

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