The Alliance Française of Washington is a non-profit, non governmental cultural and educational American association. In 1883, Jean-Jules Jusserand, the French ambassador to the United States and one of the founding fathers of the Alliance Française de Paris, encouraged the capital's French-American to establish an Alliance Française in Wash…The Alliance Française of Washington is a non-profit, non governmental cultural and educational American association. In 1883, Jean-Jules Jusserand, the French ambassador to the United States and one of the founding fathers of the Alliance Française de Paris, encouraged the capital's French-American to establish an Alliance Française in Washington. It was achieved in 1905.