Culturesfrance was a project of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Culture and Communication charged with promoting French culture around the world.
The ADPF was a project of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to promote books written in French.
It is chaired by Jacques Blot and directed by Olivier Poivre d'Arvor.
In 2010 the French Parliament made the association a non-governmental organization and transferred its duties from the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs to a public corporation (établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial, or EPIC) called the Institut français (French Institute).
[1] A proposal to create a similar public corporation, the Institut Victor Hugo (Victor Hugo Institute), was rejected by the French Senate in 2009.