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KING EDWARD VII.
But perhaps his greatest triumph was the breaking down of the age-long barrier between France and England—the establishment of the entente cordiale, and the recognition of the mutual interests which should unite the neighbour countries,—
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Interests which, I am glad to think, increase every year, and which tend to draw closer the ties of friendship and mutual respect which have characterised the relations which have so happily existed between this country and my own for nearly a century. The days of conflict between the two countries, are, I think, happily over, and I hope that future historians, in alluding to Anglo-French relations in the present century, may be able to record only a
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