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The Archives nationales are heir to the Trésor des chartes ("Charters Treasury"), the archives of the French crown that were kept in the ancient Capetian royal palace on the Île de la Cité until the French Revolution, although the Trésor des chartes was more limited in scope than the current Archives nationales, since it contained only charters and legal records constituting title deeds ...
The Musée des Archives Nationales (French pronunciation: [myze dez‿aʁʃiv nɑsjɔnal]), formerly known as the Musée de l'Histoire de France (pronounced [myze d(ə) listwaʁ də fʁɑ̃s] ⓘ), is a state museum of French history operated by the Archives Nationales. The museum features exhibitions drawn from the collections of the ...
The Archives Nationales d'Haiti (ANH) were created by a Presidential Decree on August 20, 1860. The Decree occurred under the government of Fabre Geffrard (1859-1867). The Decree established the "General Archives of Finances" which were the Republic of Haiti's first formal and official archives. Although the government had at an early time ...
The National Archives were formed in 2003, as a merger of the much older Public Record Office (created in 1838) and the Historical Manuscripts Commission. [31] The records of England originate in the Chancery Archives and the tax accounting records of the Pipe rolls, the Memoranda Rolls of the Exchequer, and the feet of fines dating back to ...
Some national archives collections are large, holding millions of items spanning several centuries, while others have been created more recently and have modest collections. Many national archives are effectively dispersed, especially in post-colonial countries, and often have smaller local collections due to cultural imperialism and the theft ...
The Archives nationales d'outre-mer in Aix-en-Provence is a branch of the Archives Nationales of France that documents the French colonial empire.According to one scholar, "half the history of France overseas was represented in the mass of papers" first assembled in Aix in 1966.
Archives nationales may refer to: . Centre Nationale des Archives (Algeria) National Archives of Benin; National Archives of Cameroon; Archives Nationales du Congo
The Trésor des chartes is not, however, the oldest series of records held by the Archives nationales, as that distinction goes to the so-called "Historic Monuments" series (series K and KK), an artificial series of historical records assembled after the French Revolution with archives seized during the French Revolution, in particular those of ...