A Warrant being granted on 23rd September 1993 by the Grand Council of the Order of the Allied Masonic Degrees for England and Wales, our Order of the Allied Degrees was established in France on that day by the consecration of the Marca Hispanica Council, n° 133, to work in Narbonne.

 A steady development of the Order saw the following Councils later established:
- Occitania Metropolitan n° 131 on the 8th of June 1994 in Toulouse,
- Arvernia n° 148 on the 8th May 1998 in Clermont-Ferrand,

and on the 9th May 1998 the Sovereign Masters of the three Councils then in existence, petitioned the Grand Master of the Order in England for the formation of a Sovereign Grand Council in France.

The Petition was accepted in principle, and on the 12 th of June the said Grand Master, Most Worshipful Brother Michael Edward HERBERT, and the Grand Secretary, Most Worshipful Brother Timothy J. LEWIS, P.G.M., launched a preliminary consultation within the three existing Councils to explore their feelings regarding the desire for a Sovereign Grand Council for France.

The results of these consultations being unanimously in favour, a referendum was organised between 20th June and 31st July 1998, and following the positive results thereof, Most Worshipful Brother Michael Edward HERBERT, Grand Master, accompanied by a team of Grand Officers from the Grand Council of the Allied Masonic Degrees for England and Wales, came to France on Friday, 19th February 1999, in order to constitute the three Councils heretofore Consecrated into a Sovereign Grand Council of the Order for France.

The Order of the Allied Masonic Degrees, sometimes referred to as "The Allied Degrees", governed in France by the Grand Council of the Order of the Allied Masonic Degrees for France, is one of the Orders referred to by Art. 2 of the Articles of Association of the Body Corporate known as the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons of France, incorporated on 24th January 1997 under n°3/26513, in accordance with the provisions of the “Law of 1st July 1901”, regulating Non-Profit Corporations.

The Degrees of the Order controlled by the Grand Council are those of:

• Saint Lawrence the Martyr (All candidates are initially admitted into this Degree, and it is in this degree that all business of the Council is transacted, and the Master thereof installed)
• Knight of Constantinople,
• Grand Tylers of Solomon,
• Red Cross of Babylon,
• Holy Order of Grand High Priest (restricted to Past First Principals of Holy Royal Arch Chapters)

The following Degrees, transmitted to our Grand Council by the Grand Council of the Allied Masonic Degrees of the United States of America:

• Master of Tyre
• Architect
• Grand Architect
• Superintendant)
  
• Order of the Red Branch of Eri (conferred only on installed Sovereign Masters, on the Grand Master’s special invitation, and only within his Council.)
  • Sergeant-at-Arms
  • Squire
  • Knight

The Council for France presently has 12 Councils.