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I don't really get why Germany was angry about the agreement, maybe because they were left out of it, or becaus France wasn't on their side and now they were on the side of one of their allies. 220.237.142.175

This cartoon is by Bernard Partridge, a British cartoonist with Punch. This is clearly not from the German point of view, as stated in the accompanying text, and I doubt if Partridge is suggesting that Marianne, the symbol of France, is a prostitute. This is a standard portrayal of Marianne. Her clothes are often even more revealing! The cartoon is anti-German - the Kaiser is portrayed as an arrogant sabre-rattler, a view commonly expressed after the first Moroccan crisis. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.219.171.106 (talk) 17:05, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's the funny thing: they could show Marianne in classical Greek or Roman flowing draperies with one breast showing and it wouldn't have been considered disreputable, but once they put her in clothing which approximates Edwardian women's clothing and show her in a contemporary street scene, then it suddenly becomes quite relevant that she's showing a little more than respectable women usually did in 1905. Partridge may have been a British cartoonist, but the cartoon is hardly enthusiastic about the Entente Cordiale, or France would have been drawn quite differently, and the scene would not have been set in an urban back alley. Germany looks more miffed than sabre-rattling. Churchh (talk) 03:04, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]