A BRIEF HISTORY:

Le Souvenir Français, a French association under the high patronage of the President of the Republic, was born in 1872 in occupied Alsace- Lorraine, and was founded in 1887 in Paris by Professor Xavier Niessen. The association has more than 200,000 members in France and in more than 45 countries.

In the United States, the American Society of Le Souvenir Français, Inc. (Souvenir Français USA) has been represented since the First World War by a General Delegate, among whom were Dr Jules Pierre, MM. Bruno Kaiser, Colonel Roger Cestac, Christian Bickert, Mathieu Petitjean, and Jean Lachaud. The association is presided since November 2020 by CC(H) Thierry Chaunu (H) Lt Cdr., French Navy.