Sweet Feud
About This Novel
In 1066, the Duke of Normandy, a vassal of the King of France, conquered England. Since then, the fates of England and France, the two European powers, have been intertwined. The two countries fought a Hundred Years War in the Middle Ages. By 1689, after the Glorious Revolution, Britain joined the Grand Alliance War against the hegemony of the French "Sun King", and the war rekindled between the two countries. In the following more than a century, in order to compete for power in Europe and the world, the two countries fought in the War of Spanish Succession, the War of Austrian Succession, the Seven Years' War, the American War of Independence, as well as the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. The war stage extended from Europe to North America, India, and even the world. In the end, Britain, the maritime power, defeated France, the continental power. This book reviews the relationship between Britain and France over more than 300 years from the Glorious Revolution to the beginning of the 21st century. The book not only covers politics and economy, war and peace, but also ideas and literature, tourism and food, sports and fashion; not only interactions at the national level, but also people-to-people exchanges. Those who crossed the English Channel were not only Churchill, de Gaulle, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hume and other great figures, but also ordinary people of all kinds such as travelers yearning for exotic locales, craftsmen looking for job opportunities, publishers of popular literature, spies spying on business intelligence.
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