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The Francophonie or Francophone world is the whole body of people and organisations around the world who use the French language regularly for private or public purposes. The term was coined by Onésime Reclus [1] in 1880 and became important as part of the conceptual rethinking of cultures and geography in the late 20th century.
Paris, France The community of French-speaking nations AU: 5 (Languages of the AU) Union africaine 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 ...
As a charter member of the United Nations, France holds one of the permanent seats in the Security Council and is a member of most of its specialized and related agencies. France is also a founding member of the Union for the Mediterranean and the La Francophonie and plays a key role, both in regional and in international affairs.
The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF; sometimes shortened to La Francophonie, French: La Francophonie [la fʁɑ̃kɔfɔni], [4] [note 3] sometimes also called International Organisation of La Francophonie in English [5]) is an international organization representing where there is a notable affiliation with French language and culture.
The Peace that Never was: A History of the League of Nations (Haus Publishing, 2019), a standard scholarly history. Housden, Martyn. The League of Nations and the organisation of peace (2012) online; Ikonomou, Haakon, Karen Gram-Skjoldager, eds. The League of Nations: Perspectives from the Present (Aarhus University Press, 2019). online review
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France was hurt and humiliated by this exclusion especially considering its important role in establishing the League of Nations after WWI. [8] Whilst France wasn’t invited to forums such as Dumbarton Oaks Conference [10] in 1944 (where the USA, UK, USSR, and China deliberated over proposals for the functioning of what was to become the UN to ...
The 10 up-and-coming actors and filmmakers named 2025’s Talents to Watch kicked things off with a ceremony at France’s Ministry of Culture before hitting a yearlong series of events that will ...