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First publication of the Alliance française in 1884. The Alliance was created in Paris on 21 July 1883 by a group including the scientist Louis Pasteur, the diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps, the writers Jules Verne and Ernest Renan, and the publisher Armand Colin. The project was directly linked to the colonial aims of the French Third Republic.
SOS Children's Villages is an independent, non-governmental, nonprofit international development organization headquartered in Innsbruck, Austria. The organization provides humanitarian and developmental assistance to families facing difficulties and supports children and young people without parental care or at risk of losing it.
Œuvre de secours aux enfants ( French: [œvʁ də səkuʁ oz‿ɑ̃fɑ̃], English: Children's Aid Society ), abbreviated OSE, is a French Jewish humanitarian organization which was founded in Russia in 1912 to help Russian Jewish children. Later it moved to France. OSE's most important activities took place both before and during World War II.
The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF; sometimes shortened to the Francophonie, French: La Francophonie [la fʁɑ̃kɔfɔni], sometimes also called International Organisation of La Francophonie in English) is an international organization representing countries and regions where French is a lingua franca or customary language, where a significant proportion of the population ...
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. French is an official language in 21 member states and a commonly used language in four others. Amnesty International. 5 (Portuguese, English, Spanish, Arabic) Amnesty International. London, United Kingdom. ACS. 3 (English, Spanish) Association des États de la Caraïbe.
PROPARCO. The French Development Agency ( French: Agence française de développement, AFD) is a public financial institution that implements the policy defined by the French Government. It works to fight poverty and promote sustainable development. This public institution is active in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, the Caribbean ...
The Diplôme d'études en langue française ( English: Diploma in French Language Studies) or DELF for short, is a diploma of French-language abilities for non-native speakers of French administered by France Education International ( France Éducation international or FEI) for France's Ministry of Education. It is composed of four independent ...
The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française is the official dictionary of the French language . The Académie française is France's official authority on the usages, vocabulary, and grammar of the French language, although its recommendations carry no legal power. Sometimes, even governmental authorities disregard the Académie's rulings.