Fédération des sociétés féminines sportives de France
The Fédération des sociétés féminines sportives de France (FSFSF, later the Fédération feminine sportive de France (FFSF)) was a French organisation set up to promote women's sport. The FSFSF was responsible for the French women's football championship from 1919 until 1932, and organised the Women's Olympiad, an alternative to the Olympic Games, between 1921 and 1923. History The (FSFSF) was founded in December 1917. In January 1918, the French Athletics Federation refused to take responsibility for women's sport, and the FSFSF was officially recognised as an organiser of women's sport. Alice Milliat, Pierre Payssé and Albert Pelan, were founding members. Payssé and Pelan were both organisers of existing women's sports organisations. The first president of the FSFSF was surgeon Fauvre de Bouvet, and the FSFSF's initial board contained only two female members: Milliat and Marie Surcouf. In 1919, Milliat became the FSFSF's president, and from that time, the organisation was only run by women. The FSFSF did not class itself as a feminist movement. In 1921, the organisation officially renamed itself the (FFSF). Milliat resigned as president in 1925, and later became president again from 1930 until 1936. The FSFSF was disbanded in 1936, after Milliat resigned as president of