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Shipyards archives in 2000, which represent almost 12 000 items for the files (about 1 linear km) and about 60 000 technical large size drafts, blueprints and plans. The archives of 20th century architects who took part in the post-war Reconstruction of Rouen and the region are also an interesting and important part of the holdings (e.g. fonds Boucher, Chirol, Dussaux, Nicolau, and Robinne et Ropers).
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great contributor to Norman history. Among others tasks, he also wrote and published the finding aids for the archives of secular clergy (including Rouen archbishop's archives, Rouen chapter house's archives, all the Rouen and Seine-Inférieure parish records) which took none less than 7 volumes (1868–1900), and which are still very useful and regularly used.
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Archives of the three main courts: The
Echiquier (Exchequer) then Parlement (Supreme Court) of Normandy, Chambre des comptes et Cour des aides. The Exchequer created by the Dukes of Normandy for financial and then judicial matters became a sovereign court in 1499 and a Parlement in 1515. The records
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With a capacity of 9,5 linear kilometers, "the most beautiful repository in France" (as it was then said) soon became too small to cope with the increasing flow of archives. Projects for a larger site were postponed by the breaking of World War II. The archives had to be removed from the repository,
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The law of the 5th brumaire an V (26 October 1796) imposed the gathering of archives in the capital city of each department and stands as the foundation act of the
Department archives in France. In the department of Seine-Inférieure (now Seine-Maritime) it took almost a century to create a unique
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In the 1950s an ambitious project for a new administrative center including a skyscraper specially designed to house the archives was launched and achieved. The "Archives tower" was dedicated in 1965. This building had a (then impressive) capacity of 36 linear kilometres on 27 stories.
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Beaurepaire also took care of the judicial archives and by 1895 he had cleared the Palais de
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The Departments have had a legal obligation to support financially the Department Archives service since 1838. The Department archives in fact remained a State service until the enacting of decentralisation laws (22 July 1983) which placed them under the authority of
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Between 1984 and 1996 the old factory was turned into a repository for archives, with a 27 linear kilometers capacity and its own reading room. It now stands as an important branch of the main repository, which is still located in Rouen (quai Jean Moulin).
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