The Centre historique des Archives nationales (CHAN) French

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March 26, 1806 : The Centre historique des Archives nationales (CHAN),
French for "Historical Centre of the National Archives",
is located since 1806 in a group of buildings comprising the Hôtel de Soubise
and the Hôtel de Rohan
23 / 2.36°- 48.86° / 06.03.2004 / 15H57 - 16H23 T.U.
Centre Historique des Archives nationales (C.H.A.N.) - Hôtel Soubise - 60 rue des Francs-Bourgeois - 75003 Paris - Department of Paris - Ile-de-France (region) - France - Europe - Northern Hemisphere - Earth - Solar system - Milky Way

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The Centre historique des Archives nationales (CHAN), French for "Historical Centre of the National Archives", is located since 1806 in a group of buildings comprising the Hôtel de Soubise and the Hôtel de Rohan in the district of Le Marais in Paris. This centre stores all the documents and records from before 1958 (except the documents and records concerning former French colonies) as well as the archives of the French heads of state.

The CHAN keeps 98.3 km. (61 miles) of archives (as of 2004): 15 km. are pre-French Revolution archives; 52 km. are archives of the French central state from 1790 to 1958; 20 km. are the so-called Minutier central, i.e. the archives of all the Parisian notaries extending from the 15th century to the beginning of the 20th century; 5.8 km. are private archives, notably the archives of the aristocratic families seized at the time of the French Revolution; 4.5 km. are books; and finally 1 km. are ancient maps and plans.

It should be noted that due to the events of the French Revolution, the pre-French Revolution archives kept by the Archives nationales are not just the archives of the central state, but also the many local archives of the Paris region, such as all the archives of the abbeys surrounding Paris (e.g. the Abbey of Saint-Denis), the archives of the churches of Paris, or the archives of the medieval Paris city hall. Thus, the Archives nationales serve as the archives of the French central state for records from 1790 onwards, but for records before 1790 they serve as both the archives of the central state and the local archives of Paris and its region. The Archives nationales, however, do not keep the church records of Paris (baptisms, marriages and burials). These were entirely destroyed by fires set by extremists at the end of the Paris Commune in 1871.

The oldest document kept at the CHAN is a papyrus dated A.D. 625 coming from the archives of the Abbey of Saint-Denis seized at the time of the French Revolution. This papyrus is the confirmation of a grant of land in the city of Paris to the Abbey of Saint-Denis issued by King Chlothar II. This document is the oldest original one kept by the Archives nationales, although the Archives nationales possess medieval copies of earlier records going as far back as A.D. 528 (but not the originals).

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