Alliance Francaise worldwide

Alliance Française is a network of French Schools/Cultural centres represented throughout the world.

The different branches of Alliance Française reflect a desire amongst local francophiles to share their love of French language and culture with their fellow countrymen.

Teaching activities are complemented by an ambitious cultural policy, which can take on various forms: conferences, exhibitions or even artistic creations or live entertainment.

The different branches of the Alliance Française owe their success to their remarkable degree of integration in the social fabric of their host countries. Local branches of Alliance Française are associations set up under local law and have true autonomy. They are administered by local boards and an executive director can sometimes be appointed from Paris.

Internationally, all Alliance Françaises benefit from the support of the Alliance Française Foundation, which was created by public decree by the official journal of the French Republic on the 26th of July, 2007. The Foundation exists to modernise the historical mission of the Alliance Française founded in 1883, with the goal of increasing the diffusion of the French language and culture by sharing this mission with well-known international partners and in consultation with local public powers, and through providing expertise, training and advice to 1,071 branches of Alliance Française.