Consultation
Requests for consultation
To prepare your visit:
- Consult the detailed inventories of each collection
- Register using the online form (FR) and reserve up to five boxes per day.
The reading room is accessible Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. by appointment only.
Conditions of consultation
The collections are either open for consultation or reserved:
- To consult the open collections, you must make a request and obtain authorisation from the Contemporary History Archives.
- Consultation of the reserved collections is subject to the donor’s authorisation.
Availability of the public archives contained in the collections is governed by the Heritage Code (articles L213-1 to L213-8) (FR) amended by the law of 15 July 2008 (FR).
Readers consulting archive materials must comply with the rules of the Archives’ reading room (PDF, 68Ko, FR).
Reproduction of materials is subject to the Archives’ regulations. The costs corresponding to this service are borne by the user, according to a set price list (PDF, 100Ko, FR).
Advance notice
We require a few days’ notice of your visit to transfer the requested materials.
Places for consultation
The reading room of the Contemporary History Archives at the Sciences Po Centre for History,
28, rue Saint-Guillaume, 75007 Paris, fourth floor.
The reading room can accommodate up to five people a day. Access is free of charge. Readers must present an official photo ID (identity card, passport, driving licence, etc.).
About 15 collections are held by other archive services.
Archives nationales
The following collections are held at the Archives Nationales: Vincent Auriol, Raymond Barre, Léon Blum (first part), Jean Coutrot, Édouard Daladier, Michel Debré, Jacques Kayser, Colonel François de La Rocque, Didier Maus, MRP, MRP de la Seine, Alain Savary, Victor Schweisguth and UDSR.
Consult the Archives nationales website
Archives Nationales d’Outre-Mer
The Marius Moutet collection is held at the Archives Nationales d’Outre-Mer (FR)
Archives of the Department of Isère
The Jean Berthoin collection is held at the Archives of the Department of Isère (FR)
