Agence France-Presse (AFP)
French cooperative news agency. Based in Paris, it has roots in the Bureau Havas, created in 1832, which in 1835 became the Agence Havas, the world's first true news agency. The Agence Havas was active until the German occupation of France in 1940, when many of its personnel went underground. After the liberation of Paris in 1944, underground journalists emerged to form AFP. The French government assigned the assets of Agence Havas to AFP, which quickly became one of the world's leading wire news services. AFP operates bureaus in Africa, Asia-Pacific countries, Latin America, the Middle East, North America, and Europe.For more information on Agence France-Presse (AFP), visit Britannica.com.
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/8/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...ROUSSEL, one of the founders of the Agence France-Presse, was not intended for a career...a dozen armed men, invaded the Agence Havas on the Place de la Bourse and...France. It was in this way that the Agence France- Presse was created. The man who arrived...was the ...
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Magazine article from: New Criterion; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...the French War Ministry and later as private secretary to one of the chief executives for the Paris financial conglomerate Agence Havas, he worked out his ideas, chiefly in private, in 261 notebooks which he wrote during the early morning hours. Harry Kessler...
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