Archives Nationales (France)
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The Archives nationales (French: [aʁʃiv nɑsjɔnal], "National Archives" in English; abbreviated AN) are the national archives of France. They preserve the archives of the French state, apart from the archives of the Ministry of Armed Forces and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as these two ministries have their own archive services, the Defence Historical Service (SHD) and Diplomatic Archives [fr] respectively. The National Archives of France also keep the archives of local secular and religious institutions from the Paris Region seized at the time of the French Revolution (such as local royal courts of Paris, suburban abbeys and monasteries, etc), as well as the archives produced by the notaries of Paris during five centuries, and many private archives donated or placed in the custody of the National Archives by prominent aristocratic families, industrialists, and historical figures.
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Location | Paris and Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, France |
Established | 1790 |
Collection size | 383 km (physical records)(as of 2022) 74.75 terabytes (electronic archives) (as of end 2020) |
Period covered | AD 625 - present |
Website | www |
The National Archives have one of the largest and oldest archival collections in the world. As of 2022, they held 383 km (238 mi) of physical records (the total length of occupied shelves put next to each other) from the year 625 to the present time, and as of 2020 74.75 terabytes (74,750 GB) of electronic archives.[2]
To deal with this massive volume of documents, the National Archives currently operate from two sites in the Paris Region: the historical site of the National Archives in the heart of Paris (in the Medieval Marais district), which contains the physical records of the French state from before the French Revolution as well as the records of the Paris notaries from all periods, and the newer site at Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, in the northern suburbs of Paris, opened in 2013, which contains all the physical records of the French state since the French Revolution, as well as the private archives from all periods.
Two sister agencies, the National Overseas Archives (ANOM) and the National Archives of the World of Labour [fr] (ANMT) are located in Aix-en-Provence and in Roubaix respectively. These are managed separately from the National Archives.