Editing Anti-English sentiment (section)

===France===
{{further|France–United Kingdom relations}}
[[File:William Hogarth - O the Roast Beef of Old England ('The Gate of Calais') - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|right|"[[roast beef|Roastbeef]]" (or "''rosbif''") is a long-standing Anglophobe French slang term to designate the English or British people. Its origins lies in [[William Hogarth]]'s [[francophobia|francophobic]] painting ''[[The Gate of Calais]] or O! The Roast Beef of Old England'', in which the "roastbeef" allegory is used as a mockery. Its popular use includes films, television shows and sketch comedies.]]
After the [[Norman Conquest]] of 1066, [[Anglo-Norman language|Anglo-Norman French]] replaced [[Old English]] as the official language of England. In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the [[House of Plantagenet|Plantagenet]] kings of England lost most of their possessions in [[France]], began to consider England to be their primary domain and turned to the English language. King [[Edward I of England|Edward I]], when issuing writs for summoning parliament in 1295, claimed that the [[Philip IV of France|King of France]] planned to invade England and extinguish the English language, "a truly detestable plan which may God avert".<ref>Adrian Hastings, ''The Construction of Nationhood. Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism'' ([[Cambridge University Press]], 1997), p. 45.</ref><ref>"[Rex Franciae] ''linguam anglicam, si conceptae iniquitatis proposito detestabili potestas correspondeat, quod Deus avertat, omnino de terra delere proponit''." William Stubbs, ''Select Charters'' (Oxford: [[Clarendon Press]], 1946), p. 480.</ref> In 1346, [[Edward III of England|Edward III]] exhibited in Parliament a [[Ordinance of Normandy|forged ordinance]], in which [[Philip VI of France]] would have called for the destruction of the English nation and country. The [[Hundred Years' War]] (1337–1453) between England and France changed societies on both sides of the [[English Channel|Channel]].

The English and French were engaged in numerous wars in the following centuries. England's conflict with Scotland provided France with an opportunity to destabilise England and there was a firm friendship (known as the [[Auld Alliance]]) between France and Scotland from the late-thirteenth century to the mid-sixteenth century. The alliance eventually foundered because of growing [[Protestantism]] in Scotland. Opposition to Protestantism became a major feature of later French Anglophobia (and conversely, fear of [[Catholicism]] was a hallmark of [[Francophobia]]). [[France–United Kingdom relations|Antipathy]] and intermittent hostilities between France and Britain, as distinct from England, continued during later centuries.