Francization
（重定向自Gallicize）
![Countries normally considered as francophone Countries sometimes considered as francophone Countries not considered francophone but that joined the OIF in prospect of a francization.](/Images/godic/202501/14/Francophone_Africa.svg4237.png")
![Lycée Albert Sarraut was a French high school in Hanoi, Vietnam during the French colonial period. The school offered rigorous academic programmes with the explicit purpose of creating foreigners who thought in French and like Frenchmen. Many well-known Vietnamese scholars and leaders graduated from Lycée Albert Sarraut.](/Images/godic/202501/14/Lycée_Albert_Sarraut-Trường_THPT_Trần_Phú-Hoàn_Kiếm-0505200910674238.jpg")
Francization or Francisation (in Canadian English and American English), Frenchification (in British and also in American English), or Gallicization designates the extension of the French language by its adoption as a first language or not, adoption that can be forced upon or desired by the concerned population.