The French association of Guides and Boys Scouts of Europe was created in France in 1958, however catholic scouting dates back to nearly 1920.

Scouting was Created in England at the beginning of the 20th century by a British general, Lord Baden-Powell. The first attempts at scouting in France were timid to start with.

Father Sevin, a French Jesuit, found the scouting method appealing and met Lord Baden-Powell repeatedly. He, catholicised the method and proposed it to the French bishops of the Roman Catholic Church. It was under Fr Sevin’s impluse that the“ Boy Scouts of France” saw the day and continued to develop from 1920 onwards.

Nonetheless, as was the case for society, the post-war years were a time of crisis for scouting. Marked by the world-wide conflict, our founders of wished to reconstruct a brotherly Europe. Whilst maintaining the legacy passed on by Fr Sevin, they developed it and opened it to a true European dimension and to other non catholic Christian confessions.

Perig et Lizig Géraud Keraod gave the association its constitutional texts. In 1975, the we had accomplished was saluted by Pope Paul VI in 1994, Pope John Paul II received 7 500 young guides and boy scouts of Europe at the Vatican.

The French association of Guides and Boy scouts of Europe (AGSE) is the second movement of French scouting in term of strengths.