Entente cordiale

His Reception and Speech at the City Hall. Entente Cordiale Between the Mayor and the President.

Bonaparte's first act after providing lucrative positions for his family was to write another letter, couched in language of a most fraternal nature, to the King of England, asking for peace. "Dear Cousin George," he wrote, ". . . let us restore the entente cordiale and go about our business without any further scrapping."

[F]ewer and fewer authors are turning from journalism to literature, though the ‘entente cordiale’ between the two professions seems as great as ever.

[H]e grew unpleasantly sensitive to a drop in the temperature of the entente cordiale which had thus far obtained between himself and the gambler.

[E]mbarrassment . . . had decided Bryce not to mention the matter of the girl to John Cardigan until the entente cordiale between Pennington and his father could be reestablished.

After a decade of scorched-earth warfare, Louella ("Lollipop") Parsons had sat down to public lunch with her rival, Hedda Hopper. The entente cordiale did not last, of course.

The new and surprising entente cordiale between Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsène Wenger, whose mutual antipathy has been a recurring feature of the Premier League era, appears to have its roots on a Scottish golf course.

The tensions of an uneasy peace stressed anew the importance of the 46-year-old Entente Cordiale between France and Britain.