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In 1993, Musée du Séminaire changed its name to Musée de l'Amérique française. [1] In 1995, the museum became part of the Musée de la civilisation. [2] In 2013 the museum was renamed to Musée de l'Amérique francophone as part of Musée de la civilisation's campaign to modernise its image. [3]
The IdA is affiliated to more than thirty research centres in France, [4] including the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, REDIAL, the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, the Institut de recherche pour le développement, the ESCP Europe ...
The Ordre des francophones d'Amérique is a decoration given in the name of the community to its members. It can also be described as the Francophonie of the Americas. Because French is a Romance language , French America is sometimes considered to be part of Latin America , but this term more often refers to Hispanic America and Portuguese ...
Centre de la francophonie des Amériques: The Centre de la francophonie was inaugurated in December 2008 by Quebec Premier Jean Charest and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. [33] It was designed by French architects Franklin Azzi and Paul-Armand Grether. [34]
She also sat on the Executive committee of the International Association of Political Science and served as President of the Société québécoise de science politique for one term in 2008–09. [7] [9] On April 1, 2008, she was elected to the board of directors for the Center de la Francophonie des Amériques. [10]
2011 marked the 50th anniversary of the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie. To mark the occasion AUF promoted the Francophonie throughout the year with events devoted to "50 years of the Agency", celebrating its role as an academic agent of the French-speaking scientific community.
Claire-Marie Brisson was born in Detroit, Michigan and grew up in Dearborn, Michigan.In an interview with Radio-Canada, [4] Brisson remarks how important it is for her to identify with her American and Canadian roots, mentioning her family's village Saint-Fabien-de-Panet and her grandfather, Ernest Brisson, who was an early influence in her contemporary efforts to bring visibility to Franco ...
Onésime Reclus (22 September 1837 [1] – 30 June 1916) was a French geographer who specialized in the relations between France and its colonies. In 1880 he coined the term " Francophonie " as a means of classification of peoples of the world, being determined by the language they all spoke. [ 2 ]