The relationship between England and France has been marked by fear and rivalry since the Norman conquest imo66. Ties were closest in the later decades of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). Then, in 1431, a ten-year old king of England, Henry VI, travelled from London to Paris to be crowned king of France in Notre Dame cathedral. His French lands stretched from Bordeaux to Calais and from Cherbourg to Dijon. A humiliated French pretender governed a rump kingdom from Bourges in the south.
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