Posted AT 7:21 AM EDT on 27/03/08
A new fraternité?
France and Britain can plausibly claim to have the longest-running national rivalry in the history of the world. With brief intermissions, the competition between the two has been going on for nearly seven centuries, since the Hundred Years War. The very identity of Britishness, on which British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is so keen, was forged in the 18th- and early-19th-century conflict with France. Britain invented itself as the anti-France.
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