French cultural diplomacy

countries
445 Alliances françaises
161 services of Cultural cooperation

Main organizations
French

Institute

Alliance française

Francophonie

and governments, three associate members and twenty observers. 
The global community

of French-speaking peoples,comprising a network of private and public organizations promoting equal ties among countries where French people or France played a significant historical role, culturally, militarily or politically
1880 - French geographer Onésime Reclus coined the word Francophonie
1962 - Francophonie was then coined a second time by Léopold Sédar Senghor, founder of the Négritude movement, in the review Esprit
1970 - The modern organisation was created. Its motto is égalité, complémentarité, solidarité ("equality, complementarity, and solidarity"), a deliberate allusion to France's motto liberté, égalité, fraternité.

be either an official language or the language of education

or a foreign language that has a significant place in the system of foreign languages of the country
The aim – the protection and spread of French all over the world