ABSTRACT
French public sentiment remained anti-British for some time after Fashoda, while the British government preoccupied by the Boer War in South Africa from 1899 to 1903, spent several years trying to negotiate a treaty with Germany. The French public, despite its republican loyalties, was dazzled by the glamorous foreign monarch. In April 1904, the two governments reached a general agreement resolving their remaining colonial disputes. This Anglo-French entente was less than a formal defense treaty, but it indicated the two countries decision to cooperate in international affairs. The choice of Raymond Poincar to replace Caillaux and Poincar's subsequent election as president in January 1913 marked the end of the brief thaw in Franco-German relations. The French government was considerably less imaginative about paying for the war than it was about encouraging war production. Some historians have remarked that the country's leaders were more willing to call on the citizens to sacrifice their lives than their money.
