Storehouse of French documents

Archives Nationales is where you'll find all public documents produced by the State of France since the 7th century forward to 1958. Here visitors can view can query separately or via several databases at a time, myriad documents of import to the Republic of France and the world.

Here toe official documents of heads of state of the Fifth Republic can be found, as well as papyri from the Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties, the only contemporary portrait of Jeanne d'Arc, (Joan of Arc) and much more.