The International Committee of Electrochemical Thermodynamics and Kinetics (French acronym, C.I.T.C.E.) was the precursor of the International Society of Electrochemistry. This committee was founded in 1949 by Pourbaix with the collaboration of Van Rysselberghe and several European electrochemists. The circumstances and participants at the beginning are evoked as well as some of the activities and the subsequent evolution.