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Country
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FR
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Name of institution (English)
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The National Archives (Paris site)
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Language of name of institution
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fra
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Contact information: postal address
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11 rue des Quatre-Fils, 75003 Paris
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Contact information: phone number
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0033 (0)140276420
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Contact information: email
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contact.archives-nationales@culture.gouv.fr
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Reference number
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MC
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Type of reference number
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Archival reference number
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Title (English)
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Paris Notarial Archives
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Title (official language of the state)
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Archives des Notaires de Paris
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Language of title
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fra
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Creator / accumulator
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Notaries of Paris
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Date note
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15th century/20th century
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Language(s)
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fra
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Extent
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over 26,000 linear metres
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Type of material
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Textual Material
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Scope and content
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The Archives des Notaires de Paris is a very extensive fonds with more than 20 million notarial deeds produced by notaries in Paris and its surroundings. The richness of this fonds is practically inexhaustible. Numerous notarial deeds reflect the economic activities and social relations of Iberian conversos in France since the 16th century. Numerous records also contain Sephardic-related information.
Some examples are the following:
MC/RS//14076, June 6, 1531: the agreement between Emmanuel Alphonse and Alain de Guengat, vice-admiral of Bretagne, concerning the ransom of a Jew named Abraham Bezannero, who was being held in the castle of Brest.
MC/ET/XXXVI/16, September 16, 1561: Declaration of some Portuguese merchants regarding Jean (João) Rodrigues, a Portuguese New Christian merchant, who was held prisoner in the house of Jacques Lesaige, commissioner and examiner at the Châtelet of Paris, at the request of Jacques Perrot, a master draper in Paris, for a large sum of money.
MC/ET/III/142, July 26, 1577: power of attorney given to the merchant Diogo Nunes de Évora, a Portuguese New Christian, to recover two packets of diamonds and rubies seized at Péronne on the way to Flanders.
MC/ET/XXI/35, April 29, 1579: donation of 500 gold ducats by the merchant Álvaro Mendes, a Portuguese New Christian, to his sister Branca Mendez, wife of Luis Pinto, who lived in Seville.
MC/ET/CXVII/22/B, October 15, 1584: promise from Henri Van Ghele, master courier of the king of France, to Francisque Roderiguez (Francisco Rodrigues), a Portuguese New Christian, living in rue Vieille-du-Temple, to hold for him the packets of pearls and gems sent to him from Lisbon and Seville.
MC/ET/CXII/249, December 19, 1603: at the request of David Cedicario, a Spanish merchant living in Pisa (Italy), Manuel Alfonso and Juan de Medina, Spanish merchants living in Bordeaux, Jean Delalion, from Bordeaux, and Bartolomeu Nunes, a Portuguese living in Saint-Jean de Luz, declare to have known in Lyon and Bordeaux Diego de Andrade, a Jewish merchant from the Levant, who retired to Pisa, where he was called Jacob Esperrel (Esperal).
MC/ET/CVI/334, August 12, 1751: power of attorney given by the Parnasim of the Portuguese Jewish Community in Amsterdam to Jean Lambert, baronet of Great Britain living in Paris.
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Administrative / Biographical history
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In 1270, King Louis IX appointed 60 notaries with the jurisdiction of the Grand Châtelet de Paris, and, in 1302, King Philippe IV extended the role of the French notary to all the lands subjected to the king, integrating existing notaries under the Crown’s influence.
During the 16th century, Francis I reorganised and promulgated new rules to be adopted by the notaries of France in 1539, including the mandatory rule to write deeds in French and regulations on how records should be archived and preserved.
The French Revolution confirmed the notarial offices by a specific law of 1791, acknowledging that they were part of the social organisation of France. In the 20th century, the notary was considerably developed. The Superior Council of the Notariat was created in 1941, and the republican refoundation, with the ordinance dated November 2, 1945, provided the notary with institutional structures. Further legislation greatly developed the profession since then, until recent years.
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(source: Superior Council of Notaries, History of Notariat)
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Access points: persons, families
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Alphonse, Emmanuel
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Andrade, Diego de (Jacob Esperal)
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Bezannero, Abraham
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Mendes, Álvaro (Solomon Aben Yaesh)
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Nunes, Bartolomeu
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Nunes de Évora, Diogo
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Pinto, Luis
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Rodrigues, Francisco
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Rodrigues, João
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Author of the description
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Kevin Soares, 2022
