| Titre | République et archives. | |
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| Auteur | Vincent Duclert | |
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Revue | Revue française d'administration publique |
| Numéro | no 102, avril-juin 2002 La mémoire de l'administration | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | La mémoire de l'administration Les politiques de l'archivage |
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| Résumé anglais |
The Republic and Archives.
The French Revolution made archives and policy concerning them a major building
block in the construction of a modern State and in the elaboration of democratic
citizenship. When the National Archives were established in 1790, the National
Assembly defined the institution's political aspect : to serve public servants and citizens,
to guarantee individual liberties as well as national memory and the modernity of the
State. Yet the history of the National Archives is characterized above all by disinterest on
the part of both public representatives and officials, and the consequences of this extend
far beyond the sphere of action of the institution itself : by neglecting the Archives, those
in charge of public policy deprive themselves of one of the major tools of modernization,
democratization, and representation. This is the lesson to be learned from observing the
rare moments in the history of the French republic when political intent determined
archive policy : at the turn of the 20th century, during the Front Populaire, and during the
1950s. It is also a lesson which gives insight into the structural crisis of French Archives
since the 1980s, or even since 1959 and the birth of the Fifth Republic, for it is a crisis
not unrelated to “democratic doubting”, and to contemporary history's difficulty in
accepting its social role. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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