Abstract
Study deals with the activity of the French Alliance in Czechoslovakia after 1918. The author following the evolution of the Francophilia after the birth of the independent State, the effort of the representatives of French cultural diplomacy aiming at organizing and centralizing activities of the nascent French associations under the auspices of the Fédération des Sections de French Alliance.
The Federation offered a number of advantages, including French libraries, French speakers, subscriptions to journals. The real explosion of this type of associative activity in the inter-war period stemmed from the conjunction of both the Francophile traditions of pre-1914 Czech that the outcome of the First World War, the expansion of French education in the secondary and to a considerable extent of Alfreds Fichelle organizational activity.
The sections of the Alliance Française played a considerable role not only for the teaching of French in the region but also in support of training representations of French civilization. Political evolution has profoundly influenced these associative activities; after the Munich agreements, the period of Francophilia "Popular" has ended; after 1945, the context of Franco-Czechoslovak relations and the forms of cooperation have been modified; in 1951, this type of association has completely disappeared for a long time.