On the eve of the World War I the Armenian community of Western Europe, established in Paris and Marseille, are limited to a few thousand people, essentially merchants, political refuges and students. Since that period, two chapters of AGBU have been yet created: one in Marseille (founded on September 1910, Hagop Selian as president) and the second in Paris (founded on December 1911 by Serovpe Sevadjian). The transfer of the AGBU headquarter in Paris in 1922, along with the sixty thousand Armenians migrants between 1922 and 1925, suddenly gave France a dominant role in the AGBU. Especially, when Syria and Lebanon, where the majority of Armenian refugees have been concentrated, were under French mandate.

The fact that the AGBU Central board sat in Paris, square Alboni, should however not make us forget that Armenian community of France has not lived better than those of Middle East, missing of the basic comfort in camps. In other words, the needs of education and health remained very important and the AGBU there, as elsewhere, devoted several humanitarian programmes. The new AGBU chapters have been created in Armenian camps where different programs were developed:

• Nice April 1926, Elisabeth Nahabèd as a chairman.
• Saint-Chamond May 1927, Sarkis Kébabian as a chairman.
• Lyon May 1928, Stépan Tchakmakdjian as a chairman.
• Saint-étienne Septembre 1929, Karékin Saraydarian as a chairman.
• Vienne March 1930, Antranig Tchidémian as a chairman.
• Grenoble May 1931, K. Bédrossian as a chairman .
• Valence May 1931, B. Pachayan as a chairman.