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The entente cordiale<\/a><\/em><\/h4>
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The first \u00abentente cordiale\u00bb between France and England took shape with a highly symbolic gesture: Queen Victoria's visit to King Louis-Philippe between 2 and 7 September 1843, at the Ch\u00e2teau d'Eu in Normandy. It was the first time since Henry VIII that a British sovereign had visited France. This friendly event was all the more impressive given that, three years earlier, the two countries had been on the brink of confrontation over the question of the Orient, and strong resentment had ensued in public opinion on both sides of the Channel. The appointment of a new government on 29 October 1840, with Fran\u00e7ois Guizot as Foreign Minister, was seen as a first sign of appeasement. [read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Public education<\/a><\/em><\/h4>
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When Fran\u00e7ois Guizot became the seventh Minister of Public Education under the July Monarchy on 11 October 1832, he had long been a recognised specialist in educational issues. Since 1812, he had been Professor of Modern History at the Faculty of Letters in Paris, and even his most resolute opponents agree that he was the greatest history teacher in France in the early nineteenth century. In addition, with his future wife Pauline de Meulan, he founded in 1811 and wrote for three years the Annals of Education<\/em>, This is a monthly magazine for families and teachers who want to find out about ideas, methods and books that will help them to successfully educate their children and pupils. [read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Heritage policy<\/a><\/em><\/h4>
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As soon as he entered government in August 1830, Guizot set about rooting the new regime in the continuity of national history, in order to strengthen its legitimacy. In his eyes, history could be a powerful agent of social cohesion, fuelling a need for collective pride by showing that France had come from very far away. His universally recognised ideas and knowledge as a historian put him in a good position to develop a kind of heritage policy, based on the idea expressed by him as early as 1828 that \u00abit is a serious disorder and a great weakening of a nation to forget and disdain the past\u00bb. From then on, the management of national memory became a matter for government. [read more<\/a>]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L’entente Cordiale La premi\u00e8re \u00ab\u202fentente cordiale\u202f\u00bb entre la France et l\u2019Angleterre a pris forme par un geste symbolique tr\u00e8s fort\u202f: la visite de la reine Victoria au roi Louis-Philippe entre le 2 et le 7 septembre 1843, au ch\u00e2teau d\u2019Eu en Normandie. C\u2019\u00e9tait la premi\u00e8re fois depuis Henri VIII qu\u2019un souverain britannique se rendait en […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3317","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3317"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11854,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3317\/revisions\/11854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}