Entente Cordiale [SEP] language of work or name
Entente Cordiale
The Entente Cordiale () was a series of agreements signed on 8 April 1904 between Great Britain and the French Republic which saw a significant improvement in Anglo-French relations. Beyond the immediate concerns of colonial expansion addressed by the agreement, the signing of the Entente Cordiale marked the end of almost a thousand years of intermittent conflict between the two states and their predecessors, and replaced the "modus vivendi" that had existed since the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 with a more formal agreement. The Entente
Entente Cordiale (opera)
Entente Cordiale is a comic opera in one act by Ethel Smyth with an English-language libretto by Smyth, who describes the work as "a post-war comedy in one act (founded on fact)". It was first performed by students at the Royal College of Music in London on 22 July 1925. 
Background and performance history.
"Entente Cordiale" was Smyth's sixth and last opera. The title is a reference to the Entente Cordiale, a series of 1904