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This article is in its first part devoted to the development of national scientific and mathematical institutions in France such as the French Mathematical Society (Société Mathématique de France, SMF 1872), the French Association for the Advancement of Science (AFAS), the university expansion in mathematical France 1860-1910, and the development of G. Darboux's ``Bulletin des sciences mathématiques et astronomiques''. Most of these institutions, most significantly Darboux's Bulletin (although founded already in 1869), expressed the tendency for national recovery in French science and higher education after the lost Franco-Prussian war of 1870/71. The smaller second part of the article discusses the developing international connections of the two rather different mathematical networks around the SMF and the AFAS and points to open questions especially with respect to the relations between pure and applied mathematicians and the respective international reception of the French polytechnicien model in mathematical education and research. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0990.00012].