© 2004 European Society for Medical Oncology
The Entente Cordialenatural and necessary
Editor-in-Chief, 1 University of Oxford, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Oxford, UK; 2 Hôpital Pitié-Salpét,Paris, France
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The 18th century diplomat John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair and a Scot, famously described Britain and France as natural and necessary enemies, and he was the British ambassador to Paris. At the end of the 19th century, France and Britain had teetered on the brink of war over their imperial ambitions in Africa. A mere 6 years after that, in April 1904, representatives of