When the Germans launched their Spring Offensives of 1918, they placed tremendous pressure on the alliance between Britain and France. While French and British soldiers had formed strong relations through mutual cooperation at the Somme in 1916, the French experiences at Verdun and during the mutinies of 1917 had changed the way they viewed the war and, most crucially, how they would view any allied failures. When the British were forced to retreat following the beginning of Operation Michael in March 1918, the French reacted with fury. This article examines the nature of the French evaluations of the British during 1918 and the extent to which they judged their ally to have failed them. By using the collections of the Commissions de contrôle postal for the French army during the war, it will show the depths to which French opinion of the British fell in the first half of the year but also how British actions towards the war’s conclusion managed to restore some of their honour in French eyes.

当德军发起1918年春季攻势时，他们对英法同盟施加了巨大压力。法国和英国士兵通过1916年在索姆河地区的相互合作建立了牢固的关系，而法国人在凡尔登和1917年叛变期间的经历改变了他们看待战争的方式，最重要的是改变了他们如何看待任何盟国的失败。1918年3月，迈克尔行动开始后，英国人被迫撤退，法国人对此表现出愤怒。本文考察了1918年法国对英国人的评价的性质以及他们对盟友的失败程度的判断。通过使用邮政管理委员会的藏品 对于战争期间的法国军队而言，它将显示法国对英国人的看法在上半年的深度下降，以及英国对战争结束的行动如何在法国人眼中恢复了他们的某些荣誉。