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The Franco-Russian Alliance (French: Alliance Franco-Russe, Russian: Франко-Русский Альянс, romanized: Franko-Russkiy Al'yans), also known as the Dual Entente or Russo-French Rapprochement (Rapprochement Franco-Russe, Русско-Французское Сближение; Russko-Frantsuzskoye Sblizheniye), was an alliance formed by the agreements of 1891–94; it lasted ...
The fateful alliance: France, Russia, and the coming of the First World War (1984) online free to borrow; Kennan, George F. The decline of Bismarck's European order: Franco-Russian relations, 1875-1890 (1979). Langer, William F. The Franco-Russian Alliance, 1890-1894 (1930) Langer, William F. The Diplomacy of Imperialism: 1890-1902 (1950) pp 3 ...
Franco-Prussian War 1870–1871; Second Concert of Europe 1871; Great Eastern Crisis 1875–1878; Campaign in Bosnia 1878; Dual Alliance 1879; Boer Wars 1880–1902; Austro–Serbian Alliance 1881–1903; Triple Alliance 1882; Berlin Conference 1884; Bulgarian Crisis 1885–1888; Reinsurance Treaty 1887–1890; Franco-Russian Alliance 1894 ...
Gaston Doumergue. Discussions between France and Russia on a post-war revision of frontiers began as early as 1915. [6] On 9 March 1916 the Russian foreign minister Sergey Sazonov had written to the Russian ambassador in Paris Alexander Izvolsky, ahead of an upcoming allied conference, to state that his government was prepared to grant France and Britain free rein in determining the new ...
For example, it funded the essential trans-Siberian railway. Negotiations were increasingly successful, and by 1895. France and Russia had signed the Franco-Russian Alliance, a strong military alliance to join together in war if Germany attacked either of them. France had finally escaped its diplomatic isolation.
In an effort to isolate Germany, France successfully formed alliances with Russia and Great Britain. First came the Franco-Russian Alliance of 1894, then the 1904 Entente Cordiale with Great Britain, and finally the Anglo-Russian Entente in 1907 which became the Triple Entente. This alliance with Britain and Russia against Germany and Austria ...
The Franco-American alliance first flourished in Newport, R.I., helping to win the U.S. to win independence.
The advantage of a Franco-Russian alliance was clear to all Frenchmen: France would not be alone against Germany, for it promised a two-front war. Formal visits were exchanged between the two powers in 1890 and 1891, and the Russian Tsar saluted the French national anthem, La Marseillaise. The Franco-Russian alliance was announced in 1894.