L’anglophobie en France dans la culture savante et dans la culture populaire des années 1880 à la Seconde Guerre mondiale

Abstract

From the last two decades of the nineteenth century, when Great Britain and France were two rival colonising powers, to the end of the Second World War, anglophobia in France can be discerned in high and low cultures alike, although it differed in its modes of manifestation. If it was particularly virulent at the time of the Fashoda crisis and during the Boer war, it almost disappeared after the signature of the Entente Cordiale in April 1904. It reappeared after the First World War, because of the difficulties to settle the conflict, and in the thirties, especially in far-right groups. Under the Vichy regime, anglophobia is exploited for propaganda purposes as a way to support the government’s collaboration with Nazi Germany, but it did not have any actual influence over general opinion.