Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie

Francophonie

Last modified: 2005-07-30 by ivan sache
Keywords: organisation internationale de la francophonie | francophonie | agence de cooperation culturelle et technique |
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by Željko Heimer

• Origin and meaning of the word Francophonie in French
• Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie
  • History and organization of the OIF
  • Member States
  • Description of the flag
• Flag of the Assemblée Parlementaire de la Francophonie
• Flag of the former Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique

See also:

• International Organizations

External link:

• Agence intergrouvernementale de la Francophonie

Origin and meaning of the word Francophonie in French

The two words francophone and francophonie were coined by the geographer Onésime Reclus (1837-1916) in 1880. The relevant paragraph of Reclus' book France, Algérie et les Colonies is quoted by Maurice Piron in L'Ethnie française, April 1981, as follows:

Nous mettons aussi de côté quatre grands pays, le Sénégal, le Gabon, la Cochinchine, le Cambodge dont l'avenir du point de vue "francophone" est encore tres douteux, sauf peut-être pour le Sénégal. Par contre, nou