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Cults

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Reference FR-ANOM/81F/828-845
Title Cults
Dates 1893-1963
Dates Start 1893
Dates End 1963
Level of description Record group
Extend and medium 17 boxes

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Repository Archives nationales d'outre-mer (ANOM)
Name of creator(s) French Ministry of State for Algerian Affairs (MEAA)

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Sources http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/cults?sf_culture=en

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Reference FR-ANOM/81F/1-2449
Title French Ministry of State for Algerian Affairs
Covering dates 1873-1964
Dates Start 1873
Dates End 1964
Level of description Fonds

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Repository Archives nationales d'outre-mer (ANOM)
Name of creator(s) French Ministry of State for Algerian Affairs (MEAA)
Archival history This collection is made up of three sets transferred to the National Archives at different dates:

Files provided by the services of the Ministry of the Interior in charge of Algeria (1957-1958). The Ministry of the Interior made a transfer to the National Archives on May 2, 1957. It added twenty-eight boxes relating to the period 1930-1956 to the F80 series of the National Archives (F80 2045- 2072). Some time later, the Ministry of the Interior added six boxes relating to international relations in the 1930s (F80 2073-2078). These items were transferred by the Centre historique des Archives nationales to the Centre des archives d'outre-mer in 1975, at the same time as the whole of subseries F80. They have been integrated into the present collection because of their dates.

Fund of the Secretary of State for Algerian Affairs (1964). This collection held by the Secretary of State for Algerian Affairs was transferred to the National Archives in 1964, on the initiative of two officials of the Secretary of State, Claude Bignon, Director of the Cabinet, and François Plaisant, Secretary General. The collection, prepared for transfer by a mission from the National Archives in July 1964, arrived in Aix-en-Provence in November 1964. This deposit constitutes the largest part of the present collection resulting from the activity of the ministerial services in charge of Algerian affairs since 1945.

Contribution of a file by Francis Graëve, former deputy director of Algeria at the Ministry of the Interior (1994). In 1994, Francis Graëve, deputy director of Algerian affairs from 1947 to 1951, gave the National Archives a file consisting of reports on the activities of the department under his authority. This file was given the reference F80 2079 before being integrated into the present collection under the reference FR ANOM 81 F 4.

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Description The fonds consists of the archives of the ministerial departments responsible for Algeria between 1945 and 1964. However, there are a few older files or documents, dating back to the 1870s. In some cases, these are old regulatory documents taken up to deal with a case. In other cases, entire files which, although never transferred to the National Archives, must have been kept in the services themselves, not having known the fate of many of the archives produced at the beginning of the 20th century and which have disappeared. These files are mainly related to the Franco-Moroccan and Franco-Tripolitan borders of Algeria at the beginning of the 20th century and the situation in the Hedjaz from 1916 to 1940. Most of the collection consists of the archives of the services that operated after 1945. A certain number of files relate to general policy in Algeria and come from the deputy directors and directors of Algeria, then from the cabinets of the ministers and senior officials who succeeded each other from 1956 to 1964.

The majority of the files, however, come from the administrative services responsible for political, legal and administrative, financial and economic affairs. Given the stability of the competences of the ministerial services and the relative stability of the men, the funds show a certain continuity in the action of the administration throughout the period.

The collection of the Ministry of Algerian Affairs provides a global view of Algerian civil affairs during the period 1945-1964 and makes up for the shortcomings of the local collections transferred to France in 1962. There are files devoted to the investigation of the events of May 1945 as well as to the period of the Algerian War.

This collection includes only the archives of the central administration of the Ministry of Algeria. The services that depended on it were then attached in various ways, which explains why their collections are now generally kept at the Centre historique des archives nationales or the Centre des archives contemporaines.
System of arrangement The question of choosing a classification framework posed some difficulties due in particular to the frequent disruptions in the structures of the ministerial departments responsible for Algerian affairs from 1956 onwards.
Therefore, choosing a chronological filing system would only have led to the division of the files that had been compiled. It was therefore decided to present the collection as a single unit. The filing system chosen therefore follows the broad lines of the organization of the Ministry's services established in 1961.

Some files from offices or departments that predate the organization of the Ministry of State have been placed at the head of the fonds. The fonds initially consisting of documents 81 F 1-2415 includes a supplement of political documentation relating to documents 81 F 2416-2449, which are included in this same fonds.

In this archival description the selected documents follow the classification and arrangement established by the Archives Nationales d'Outre-Mer.

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Conditions governing access Subject to the authorization of Archives nationales d'outre-mer (ANOM)

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Rules or conventions International standard for archival description, General, etc.
Status Draft
Date of the catalogue Entry prepared in January 2022.
Archivist's notes Entry prepared by Archival City.
Sources http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/french-ministry-of-state-for-algerian-affairs?sf_culture=en

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