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Alliance Française or simply AF (The French Alliance), is an international organisation that aims to promote the French language and culture around the world.

Created in Paris on 21 July 1883 under the name Alliance française pour la propagation de la language.

Nationale dans les colonies et à l'étranger (French alliance for the propagation of the national language in the colonies and abroad) — now known simply as L'Alliance Française. 

The funding members included the scientist Louis Pasteur, the diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps, the writers Jules Verne and Ernest Renan, and the publisher Armand Colin.

The organisation’s primary concern is teaching French as a second language. Its headquarteres are in Paris.

In 2005, along with the Società Dante Alighieri, the British Council, the Goethe-Institut, the Instituto Cervantes,

And the Instituto Camões, the Alliance Française was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for outstanding achievements in communications and the humanities.