Marine. Lettres reçues
Item
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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)1 40 27 64 20
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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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MAR B/3
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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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Navy Archives. Letters received
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Title (official language of the state)
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Marine. Lettres reçues
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Language of title
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fra
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Creator / accumulator
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Marine
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Date(s)
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1628/1789
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Language(s)
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fra
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Extent
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803 storage units
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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 Marine fonds comprises significant documentation concerning the Navy, including information related to France's naval, administrative, social, and economic history, mostly between 1670 and 1789. It includes royal orders, correspondence and information on diplomatic and commercial relations.
Some materials contain information regarding Iberian conversos and Jews. A few examples are the following:
MAR/B/3/50: includes a petition from Portuguese New Christian merchants settled in Toulouse in 1685 (fols. 119-128).
MAR/B/3/227: letter from Lamoignon de Courson, intendant in Bourdeaux, on the entry of Jews in the province in 1714 (fols. 183, 186).
MAR/B/3/567: collection of letters-patent and other documents concerning Portuguese Jews and their privileges in France in 1765 (fols. 416-432).
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Archival history
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Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683) was responsible for developing the reorganisation and conservation rules for the Marine fonds. Before his time in office, only some documents survived.
The classification framework was established on May 25, 1862, and adopted on June 24, 1887. It included seven major subdivisions: Service général (general service), Service central (central service), Personnel (staff), Matériel (equipment), Comptabilité (accounting), Invalides (invalids), Mémoires (memoranda) and projects, to which the current Marine A to G sub-fonds corresponds.
It should be noted that this is an artificial classification and does not correspond, in many cases, to the institutional organisation of the Navy offices and archives. Often, documents of different producers are mixed together, or, on the contrary, papers from the same office can frequently be found in different series.
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(source: Archives Nationales: Salle des inventaires virtuelles)
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Author of the description
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Kevin Soares, 2023
