Gallic blood is boiling over Netflix's star-studded film of the battle of Agincourt, the King, amid claims it is riddled with historical inaccuracies, dangerously jingoistic and “anti-French”.

The French have long railed against William Shakespeare’s take on Henry V’s legendary 1415 victory in northern France, which left an indelible mark in England as one of its greatest military triumphs and a high point in the Hundred Years War.

But the Bard's poetic licence pales into comparison with David Michôd’s feature released in selected UK cinemas on October 11 and on Netflix earlier this month starring Timothée Chalamet, Lily Rose Depp, Robert Pattinson and Joel Edgerton.

That is according to Christophe Gilliot, head of newly renovated Agincourt museum.

"I'm outraged. The image of the French is really sullied. The film has Francophobe tendencies,” he said, taking offence at Pattinson’s hammed-up take of the French Dauphin Louis de Guyenne, Henry’s nemesis.

“The British far-Right are going to lap this up, it will flatter nationalist egos over there,” he predicted.

