Restoring order : the Ecole des chartes and the organization of archives and libraries in France, 1820-1870 / by Lara Jennifer Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Lara Jennifer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

École nationale des chartes (France)--History.

École nationale des chartes (France).

Archives--France--History--19th century.

Archives.

Libraries--France--History--19th century.

Libraries.

France--Charters, grants, privileges--History--19th century.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Duluth, Minn. : Litwin Books, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

According to most histories of French archives and libraries, the nineteenth century was a period of slow but steady recovery from the trauma of the revolutionary era. In contrast, Moore argues that the organization of archives and libraries in nineteenth-century France was neither steady nor progressive. By following the development of the Ecole des Chartes, the state school for archivists and librarians, Moore shows that conceptions of "order" changed dramatically from one decade to the next. More important, she argues that these changing notions of "order" were directly connected to contemporary shifts in state politics. Since each new political regime had its own conceptions of both national history and public knowledge, each one worked to "restore order" in a different way.

Contents:

Of kings and charters : restoration politics and the creation of the Ecole des Chartes

Constructing an authentic national history : archives and libraries under liberal rule

Putting the past in order : archival classification and the Ecole des chartes in the late July monarchy

Revolutionary libraries and reactionary archives? : chartistes in the service of the Second Republic and early Empire

The challenge of the public : defining libraries and archives in the late Second Empire.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-285) and index.

ISBN:

1-936117-33-9

OCLC:

712062033