Succession
Charles-Guillaume and Auguste Havas take over the Agency’s management from their father.
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Charles-Guillaume and Auguste Havas take over the Agency’s management from their father.
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.
From 1835 to 1875, the Agence Havas offices are located on rue
Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Paris,
opposite the General Post Office.
The first videographics: animated films with spoken commentaries.
First 3D videographics.
Launch of the official AFP Facebook page in French and English.
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Jean Marin is appointed CEO. After the vote of the Agence France-Presse Statute in January 1957, he is re-elected every three years and
remained president and CEO until 1975.
Re-elected as AFP chairman on October 12, 2008.
AFP’s photo book capturing the best news images of 2014