Guy Mollet (l), Sir Anthony Eden, and Christian Pineau, the French foreign minister, meet in Paris
By Caroline Davies
Last Updated: 2:00AM GMT 16/01/2007
Last Updated: 2:00AM GMT 16/01/2007
Your View: What would life be like if Britain and France had merged?
Zut alors! Such is the antipathy today, it is hard today to imagine two nations less likely to form a union than Great Britain and France. Or, indeed, what of the prospect of our Queen as the first regal head of this avowedly republican country since the previous royal occupants of the post literally lost theirs.
Guy Mollet (l), Sir Anthony Eden, and Christian Pineau, the French foreign minister, meet in Paris
But documents housed at the National Archives at Kew show not only was this seriously considered by the French, but they also wanted to join the Commonwealth as well.
The course of modern history would have well and truly changed back in 1956 had the French prime minister Guy Mollet got his way when he arrived in London for talks with his British counterpart Anthony Eden.
A British Cabinet paper from the time reads: “When the French Prime Minister, Monsieur Mollet was recently in London, he raised with the Prime Minister the possibility of a union between the United Kingdom and France....
Zut alors! Such is the antipathy today, it is hard today to imagine two nations less likely to form a union than Great Britain and France. Or, indeed, what of the prospect of our Queen as the first regal head of this avowedly republican country since the previous royal occupants of the post literally lost theirs.
Guy Mollet (l), Sir Anthony Eden, and Christian Pineau, the French foreign minister, meet in Paris
But documents housed at the National Archives at Kew show not only was this seriously considered by the French, but they also wanted to join the Commonwealth as well.
The course of modern history would have well and truly changed back in 1956 had the French prime minister Guy Mollet got his way when he arrived in London for talks with his British counterpart Anthony Eden.
A British Cabinet paper from the time reads: “When the French Prime Minister, Monsieur Mollet was recently in London, he raised with the Prime Minister the possibility of a union between the United Kingdom and France....
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