Abstract
After World War II, Europe was fragmented. Germany was defeated, ruined and divided by the winners of the war. France was considered as a winner and had a zone under its responsibility in Germany like the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union. In 1949, the state of the Federal Republic of Germany was created. It consisted of the west part of Germany. The eastern part was a people democracy, under the soviet control. The first German chancellor was Konrad Adenauer, from the CDU, the Christian-democrat party. France adopted a behaviour of mistrust towards this new regime. The memories of the first and second world war were still present. Konrad Adenauer was one of the founding fathers of Europe, through the creation of the Coal and Steel community in 1951. France was also part of the project. But the first French-German pair was born with the return to power in France of Charles de Gaulle in 1958. From 1958 until 1963 and the end of the mandate of Adenauer, the two men created a real link between the two countries. The peak of this collaboration was the signature in 1963 of the Elysée Treaty. They made agreements over foreign affairs, youth, defence and others.
