BFI

The 'entente cordiale', an informal alliance between Britain and France which had been the result of King Edward's pro-French stance, proved popular with the British public. The new leftist French President, Armand Fallières (the man who had reinstated the notoriously dismissed officer Captain Alfred Dreyfus), was cheered with great enthusiasm by the crowds when he arrived in London - in stark contrast to criticism which the King received for his visit to the Russian Czar, who was seen as excessively repressive. This newsreel item was one of several taken of different public appearances by the President during his visit to Britain and that year's Franco-British Exhibition.

Bryony Dixon

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