Description
CultureSecrets invites you to an exceptional guided tour of the National Archives! More than 200 years of history are classified and preserved in this place that has gone through the wars and political movements of our contemporary history. This visit will be punctuated by an exceptional presentation of papyri from the Merovingian and Carolingian eras, never before revealed to the public, by Amable Sablon du Corail, head of the Department of the Middle Ages and the Ancien Régime.
To know
Created in 1790 during the French Revolution, the National Archives collect and classify the writings of the State from the 7th century to the present day, the minutes of notaries as well as the private archives entrusted to the institution. Millions of documents are thus preciously maintained, their historical and patrimonial values are invaluable. The PapMedAn project (Medieval Paryrus of the National Archives) is interested in the study of written materials used in the Merovingian period and takes as its starting point a corpus of some forty documents preserved at the National Archives in Paris, all written on papyrus in a chronological range between the first quarter of the seventh century and the end of the ninth century, in Western Europe.
Our secret
The PapMedAn project will finally be part of a wider perspective of valorization of the written p
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Practice info:
Monday September 12th at 7pm
National Archives Museum
60 rue des Francs Bourgeois, 75003 Paris
Your name will be indicated on a list at the entrance to the event.
