monographs highlights an important aspect of the formation of a new international order after the end of the First World War. The parameters of this order largely depended on relations between Great Britain and France - the only great powers of the victorious coalition that participated in the war throughout its entire length. Anglo-French relations were complicated by a large number of contradictions, and the question of the post-war fate of the peoples and territories of the defeated Ottoman Empire caused no less sharp disagreements than the peace process in Europe.