Launch of the official AFP Facebook page in French and English.

Check out AFP’s Facebook page

The first videographics: animated films with spoken commentaries.

First 3D videographics.

From 1835 to 1875, the Agence Havas offices are located on rue
Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Paris,
opposite the General Post Office.

The Agence France Presse Moscow bureau team is awarded the Albert Londres Prize for its coverage of the war in Chechnya.

A first: AFP-Direct makes it possible to customize the broadcast of stories produced by the AFP's text services.

The Agency starts to use electrical telegraphs, an invention which enables it to expand.
Soon it is better and faster informed of what is going on in the world.
In response to the Crimean war (1854-1856) it extends its European network all the way to Saint Petersburg and the Bosphorus.

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