At the end of the Second World War, British society's hostility and resentment towards France's military defeat and the French state's collaboration with Germany were strong. In order to deflate this enmity and thus prepare the ground to forge western European co-operation, the French and British governments co-operated and developed gendered public and media strategies within which citizens, and, in particular, former female resistance fighters, were central to the dissemination of positive images of France. This article takes seriously these strategies and adds nuance to understandings of modern foreign policy in terms of methods and actors. The article elaborates on neglected agents of diplomacy, such as female members of civil society, and the significance of rhetoric, gendered performance, and appearances that contributed to the restoration of the image of France in Britain. By doing so, the article also sheds light on the efforts of French and British authorities to construct a narrative of binational unity that disrupted the tenacious idea that Britain had fought alone during the war.

二战结束时，英国社会对法国在军事上的失败以及法国与德国的合作有着强烈的敌意和怨恨。为了平息这种敌意，从而为建立西欧合作奠定基础，法国和英国政府合作并制定了性别化的公共和媒体战略，其中公民，特别是前女性抵抗战士，是核心传播法国的正面形象。本文认真对待这些策略，并在方法和参与者方面为对现代外交政策的理解增加了细微差别。文章详细阐述了被忽视的外交代理人，例如民间社会的女性成员，以及修辞、性别表现、并有助于恢复法国在英国的形象。通过这样做，这篇文章还揭示了法国和英国当局为构建两国统一叙事所做的努力，这种叙事打破了英国在战争期间单独作战的顽固观念。