Secrétariat d’État de la maison du roi
Item
Country
FR
Name of institution (English)
The National Archives (Paris site)
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
fra
Contact information: postal address
11 rue des Quatre-Fils, 75003 Paris
Contact information: phone number
0033 (0)140276420
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
contact.archives-nationales@culture.gouv.fr
Reference number
O/1/1 to O/1/749
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (English)
State Secretariat of the King's Household
Title (official language of the state)
Secrétariat d’État de la maison du roi
Language of title
fra
Creator / accumulator
Maison du roi
Date(s)
1506/1791
Language(s)
fra
Extent
749 storage units
Type of material
Textual Material
Scope and content
The Secrétariat d’État de la maison du roi subfonds is part of the general Maison du roi sous l’Ancien régime (King's Household in the Ancien Régime) fonds. It contains the private archives of the French Crown, including information on the domestic organisation of the King's Household. It encompasses a broad range of topics, including civil and religious administration of the city of Paris and other parts of the kingdom. It also contains information about different institutions that were under the King's protection or administration, such as the Collège royal de France (Royal College of France), the Bibliothèque du roi (the King's Library), the Jardin des Plantes (literally, the Garden of the Plants, i.e. a botanic garden), the Imprimerie royale (Royal Printing Office), and other institutions.
Among this extensive collection are several items relating to the presence of Iberian conversos and Sephardic Jews in the French kingdom. Particularly interesting is the documentation related to the residence and economic activities of Sephardic Jews in Bayonne and Bordeaux in the 18th century. It is the case of a letter from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on December 22, 1728, providing information on Jewish families of Saint-Esprit quartier in Bayonne, namely about the economic deprivation of some of them, and asking for measures to reduce the number of families in need, including by removing them from the kingdom (O/1/508, Maison du roi sous l’Ancien régime, Secrétariat d’État de la maison du roi, Correspondance du ministre avec les provinces: lettres reçues et envoyées).
Among this extensive collection are several items relating to the presence of Iberian conversos and Sephardic Jews in the French kingdom. Particularly interesting is the documentation related to the residence and economic activities of Sephardic Jews in Bayonne and Bordeaux in the 18th century. It is the case of a letter from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on December 22, 1728, providing information on Jewish families of Saint-Esprit quartier in Bayonne, namely about the economic deprivation of some of them, and asking for measures to reduce the number of families in need, including by removing them from the kingdom (O/1/508, Maison du roi sous l’Ancien régime, Secrétariat d’État de la maison du roi, Correspondance du ministre avec les provinces: lettres reçues et envoyées).
Archival history
The Archives Nationales were created after the French Revolution, receiving this name from the Constituent Assembly on September 12, 1790. Four years later, the National Convention passed a law on June 25, 1794, establishing the Archives' functions following the same three principles that still apply today: the centralization of the national archives, free public access, and the need for a national archives network. Thus, the Archives Nationales gradually received several fonds, even from central institutions suppressed by the French Revolution and church archives.
In 1808, Napoleon I (reign: 1804-14, 1815) allocated the Hôtel de Soubise as a temporary location for the Archives Nationales. A specific building was to be built on the Champ-de-Mars, but the project was never carried out. Therefore, during the 19th century, the Archives Nationales started expanding around the Hôtel de Soubise within the building of the "grands dépôts" (great depositories) under Louis-Philippe (reign: 1830–48) and Napoleon III (1852–70). In 1927, the Archives Nationales moved to the Hôtel de Rohan, previously home to the Imprimerie Nationale (National Printing House). However, the building soon became too small to house all collections. In 1972, the former NATO buildings in Fontainebleau were allocated to the Archives Nationales, to house the archival deposits from the ministries. In 1988, a large building was opened in Paris, the CARAN (Centre d'accueil et de recherche des Archives Nationales).
The lack of space in the buildings of Paris and Fontainebleau and the remoteness of the Fontainebleau building obliged to plan a third location for the Archives Nationales. In 2004, the French government chose the site of Pierrefitte-sur-Seine to serve as the location for a new building, which was built in the following years. The architect Massimiliano Fuksas was responsible for this project. The Pierrefitte-sur-Seine site of the Archives Nationales was inaugurated on February 11, 2013.
In 1808, Napoleon I (reign: 1804-14, 1815) allocated the Hôtel de Soubise as a temporary location for the Archives Nationales. A specific building was to be built on the Champ-de-Mars, but the project was never carried out. Therefore, during the 19th century, the Archives Nationales started expanding around the Hôtel de Soubise within the building of the "grands dépôts" (great depositories) under Louis-Philippe (reign: 1830–48) and Napoleon III (1852–70). In 1927, the Archives Nationales moved to the Hôtel de Rohan, previously home to the Imprimerie Nationale (National Printing House). However, the building soon became too small to house all collections. In 1972, the former NATO buildings in Fontainebleau were allocated to the Archives Nationales, to house the archival deposits from the ministries. In 1988, a large building was opened in Paris, the CARAN (Centre d'accueil et de recherche des Archives Nationales).
The lack of space in the buildings of Paris and Fontainebleau and the remoteness of the Fontainebleau building obliged to plan a third location for the Archives Nationales. In 2004, the French government chose the site of Pierrefitte-sur-Seine to serve as the location for a new building, which was built in the following years. The architect Massimiliano Fuksas was responsible for this project. The Pierrefitte-sur-Seine site of the Archives Nationales was inaugurated on February 11, 2013.
Administrative / Biographical history
The Maison du roi (King's Household) grew out of the old Hôtel du roi (King's House) and was originally a domestic body of servants of the king who looked after his daily life and regulated the pomp of his public life. Each of its departments was entrusted to a senior officer of the Crown. The authority over all departments was delegated to a Secretary of State from the last Valois.
Definitively organised in the 17th century, the Maison du roi expanded during the reign of Louis XIV (1654-1715), following the increase of the Court, the rigour of etiquette and the domestication of the nobility. Its main services bear the mark of Colbert (1619-83), who was secrétaire d’État de la Maison du roi (Secretary of State for the King's Household): he had the first inventories drawn up and opened the Journal du Garde-meuble, regulated the accounting of the Menus-Plaisirs and the Bâtiments, and prescribed the regular registration of royal acts and ministerial dispatches. The Maison du roi was one of the most important ministries when its archives were seized from its two repositories in Paris, the Vieux-Louvre and the Grands-Augustins.
Definitively organised in the 17th century, the Maison du roi expanded during the reign of Louis XIV (1654-1715), following the increase of the Court, the rigour of etiquette and the domestication of the nobility. Its main services bear the mark of Colbert (1619-83), who was secrétaire d’État de la Maison du roi (Secretary of State for the King's Household): he had the first inventories drawn up and opened the Journal du Garde-meuble, regulated the accounting of the Menus-Plaisirs and the Bâtiments, and prescribed the regular registration of royal acts and ministerial dispatches. The Maison du roi was one of the most important ministries when its archives were seized from its two repositories in Paris, the Vieux-Louvre and the Grands-Augustins.
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Access points: subject terms
Access points: document types
System of arrangement
The fonds is organised by institutions. Series are divided into types of documents and arranged chronologically.
Finding aids
Finding aids available in the reading room:
Collection de minutes de lettres patentes (1775-1789). Voir les tables placées en tête de chaque registre de la collection. (O/1*/129 à 136)
Collection de copies de lettres patentes [1765-1789] et collection du Département de la Religion Prétendue Réformée. Voir les tables placées en tête ou en fin de chaque registre de la collection. (O/1*/137 à 161)
Collection de minutes de lettres patentes (1740-1780); transcription d’actes royaux pour servir de modèles [XVIe s.-1763]. Inventaire analytique manuscrit sur fiches dans l’ordre des noms géographiques, de personnes et de matières, XIXe s.: env. 2 500 fiches (O/1*/171 à 180 et 271 à 277)
References in the Reading Room: (site de Paris): Microfiches 1859-1867.
References in the Reading Room: (site de Paris): Microfiches 1859-1867.
Lettres de naturalité et de légitimation (1506-1789). Index dactylographié des noms de personnes, par Guillemette de Bauffremont, Jean de La Trollière et F. de La Houssaye, complété par Patricia Mochkovitch et Bruno Galland, 364 p. (O/1*/218 à 238)
References in the Reading Room: (site de Paris): M/08 and Microfiches 1556-1559.
References in the Reading Room: (site de Paris): M/08 and Microfiches 1556-1559.
Minutes de lettres patentes envoyées au sceau (janvier 1775-juin 1789). Index manuscrit sur fiches des noms de personnes, par Charles de Lapeyrouse et Henri Buche, 1880-1884 : env. 10 000 fiches (O/1*/292 à 348)
References in the Reading Room: (site de Paris): Microfiches 1571-1630.
References in the Reading Room: (site de Paris): Microfiches 1571-1630.
Registres des dépêches ministérielles : lettres du ministre aux autres secrétaires d’État, aux cours, aux intendants, au haut clergé, au lieutenant général de police, au prévôt des marchands de Paris, etc. (1747-1765). Inventaire analytique manuscrit sur fiches des articles O/1/392 à 407 dans l’ordre des noms géographiques, de personnes et de matières, XIXe s., revu et complété par Fernand Gerbaux en 1885 : env. 24 000 fiches (O/1*/392 à 407)
References in the Reading Room: (site de Paris): Microfilms 34-38 et Microfiches 1859-1867.
References in the Reading Room: (site de Paris): Microfilms 34-38 et Microfiches 1859-1867.
Registres des dépêches ministérielles : lettres du ministre aux autres secrétaires d’État, aux cours, aux intendants, au haut clergé, au lieutenant général de police, au prévôt des marchands de Paris, etc. [1766-1791]. Voir les tables placées en tête ou fin de chaque registre (O/1*/408 à 436).
Minutes de dépêches provenant du comte de Saint-Florentin et concernant particulièrement les pays d’États [1741-1789]. Voir les tables placées en tête ou fin de chaque registre (O/1*/437 à 486)
Copies de minutes [juillet 1775-1790] (O/1*/487 à 501)
Lettres, placets, mémoires adressés au roi ou au ministre par des particuliers, des villes ou des provinces (XVIIe-XVIIIe s.) ; dossiers de procès (XVIIIe s.). Index manuscrit des noms de personnes, villes et provinces contenus dans les articles O/1/592 à 596 et 598 à 601, par Henri de Curzon, 1898, 17 p (O/1/592 à 596, 598 à 601)
References in the Reading Room: (site de Paris): O1/50.
References in the Reading Room: (site de Paris): O1/50.
Voyage autour du monde de Bougainville : récit du prince de Nassau-Siegen (octobre 1766-juillet 1768). Édition par Étienne Taillemite, Bougainville et ses compagnons autour du monde, 1766-1769. Journaux de navigation, t. II, Paris, 1977, p. 371-409 (O/1/597, n° 28)
Imprimerie royale (1716-1790). Inventaire analytique dactylographié, avec index, 2001 (O/1/610-611)
References in the Reading Room: (site de Paris): O1/61.
References in the Reading Room: (site de Paris): O1/61.
Dossiers de pensions sur le Trésor royal (fin du XVIIIe s). Index manuscrit des noms de personnes, par Henri de Curzon, 1898, 2 fascicules (O/1/666 à 688)
References in the Reading Room: (site de Paris): O1/51-52.
References in the Reading Room: (site de Paris): O1/51-52.
État des pensions de la liste civile (1792). Index dactylographié et manuscrit des noms de personnes, 197 p. (O/1*/702 à 707)
References in the Reading Room: (site de Paris): O1/53.
References in the Reading Room: (site de Paris): O1/53.
Lettres de noblesse, érections de terres en dignité, concessions de titres, d’ordres, etc. (1669-1790). Index manuscrit sur fiches des noms de personnes (et de terres pour les érections en dignité), par Jean-Baptiste Dumény, 1855 ; fichier photocopié en un vol. (O/1/1 à 348)
References in the Reading Room: (site de Paris): O1/54 and Microfiches 900-906.
References in the Reading Room: (site de Paris): O1/54 and Microfiches 900-906.
Artistes et hommes de science: Bibliothèque du roi, Imprimerie royale, Librairie, Collèges de chirurgie et de pharmacie, Académie royale de musique (XVIIe-XVIIIe s.). Index dactylographié des noms de personnes, par Henri de Curzon, 1902, I-275 p. (O/1/609 à 629, 844 à 849, 1073, 1671 à 1674, 1691, 1785, 1907 à 1922, 1925 à 1927, 1930 à 1934, 1964 à 1968)
References in the Reading Room: (site de Paris): O1/26.
References in the Reading Room: (site de Paris): O1/26.
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Author of the description
Kevin Soares, 2022
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