History

AFD's origins go back to the Caisse Centrale de la France Libre (CCFL), created by Charles de Gaulle on 2 December 1941 and successively renamed the Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer (CCFOM) in February 1944 and the Caisse Centrale de Coopération Économique (CCCE) in 1958.