‘Entente kordiale.’ On 24 January 1963, French cartoonist Tim illustrates the historic, formal nature of the signing of the Élysée Treaty by President de Gaulle and Chancellor Adenauer two days earlier. This treaty of cooperation between France and West Germany aims to seal the reconciliation and rapprochement between the two countries, as was the case with the treaty of alliance, known as the ‘entente cordiale’, between France and the United Kingdom in April 1904. President de Gaulle, with a top hat, and Chancellor Adenauer, with a feathered hat, both wearing ceremonial dress, are seated in a carriage escorted by Republican Guard cavalry, symbolising the new ‘entente’ between the two countries.