French revanchism limited alternatives to the Russian alliance

Could Britain or Germany have persuaded France to abandon the Franco-Russian Alliance by offering mutual non-aggression or defensive guarantees?

That was unlikely because the legacy of the Franco-Prussian War and French aims against Germany gave France reasons that a new guarantee would not remove.

New British or German guarantees were unlikely to detach France from Russia before the First World War. The legacy of the Franco-Prussian War and France's continuing hostility toward Germany form the central obstacle. A non-aggression arrangement would not by itself settle the aims and fears that made the Russian connection valuable to France. Alliance systems could not be redesigned simply by substituting one formal promise for another.