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- treaty
- Participant
- French Third Republic
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- Franco-Russian Alliance
- point in time
- 1894-01-04
- signatory
- Félix Faure
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The Pont Alexandre III in Paris (pictured during the 1900 Paris Exposition) and the Trinity Bridge in St Petersburg remain two symbols of the Franco-Russian Alliance.
The Franco-Russian Alliance (French: Alliance Franco-Russe, Russian: Франко-Русский Альянс, romanized: Franko-Russkiy Al'yans), also known as the Dual Entente or Russo-French Rapprochement (Rapprochement Franco-Russe, Русско-Французское Сближение; Russko-Frantsuzskoye Sblizheniye), was an alliance formed by the agreements of 1891–94; it lasted until 1917. The strengthening of the German Empire, the creation of the Triple Alliance of 1882, and the exacerbation of Franco-German and Russo-German tensions at the end of the 1880s led to a common foreign policy and mutual strategic military interests between France and Russia. The development of financial ties between the two countries created the economic prerequisites for the Russo-French Alliance.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Franco-Russian Alliance” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.