Archives of French Foreign Ministry

The Quai d'Orsay Archives will be moving to a new home in La Courneuve in late September. In advance of this move, they will be closing for the summer. In addition, they will be making many of their microfilmed collections available for access in the CARAN, starting this fall. More information below -

http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/ministry_158/archives-and-heritage_3562/new-diplomatic-archive-center-of-the-ministry-of-foreign-and-european-affairs-september-29-2008_11949.html

Wednesday primary source #7 - cartes de visite

A collection of cartes de visite owned by Felix
Potin, French retail innovator. Images of important
19th century figures by important photographers.

Author: Potin, Felix, collector.
Title: Portraits of prominent 19th century figures :
photographs, ca. 1860-1890.
Physical Description: 436 cartes de vistes (.75
linear ft.)
Summary: Includes original portraits of European
and Eastern Royalty; otherwise primarily
French figures of the military, judiciary,
church and state, as well as artists, writers,
scientists, composers, explorers and
bicyclists.  Includes an interesting series
made by Felix Nadar's son, Paul, of Nadar
interviewing Michel-Eugene Chevreul in 1886.
Note: Numerous photographs, primarily French,
including work by Disderi, Nadar, Petit,
Reutlinger and the Italian, Brogi.
Indexes: Contents listing included in the
Photograph Collections' personal name master list.

SPEC-COLL CALL NUMBER       COPY  LOCATION                        
1)MSS PHOTO 163            1   MANUSCRIPT

Books for summer reading...

French

Bahier-Porte, Christelle, and Régine Jomand-Baudry. Ecrire en mineur au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Desjonquères, 2009.

Bluher, Dominique, ed. Le court métrage documentaire français de 1945 à 1968: créations et créateurs. [Actes du colloque qui s'est tenu à l'université de Rennes 2 du 18 au 20 mars 2004]. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2009.

Calle-Gruber, Mireille, and Valerio Adami. Jacques Derrida, la distance généreuse. Les essais, 68. Paris: Différence, 2009.

Castoriadis, Cornelius, and Nicolas Poirier. Histoire et création: textes philosophiques inédits, 1945-1967. La couleur des idées. Paris: Seuil, 2009.

Chamoiseau, Patrick. Les neuf consciences du Malfini: roman. [Paris]: Gallimard, 2009.

Corvol, Andrée. L'arbre en occident. [Paris]: Fayard, 2009.

De Jong, Mayke. The Penitential State: Authority and Atonement in the Age of Louis the Pious, 814-840. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Glissant, Édouard. Philosophie de la relation: poésie en étendue. [Paris]: Gallimard, 2009.

Guide de lecture des cartes anciennes: illustrations dans le Val d'Oise et le bassin parisien. Paris: Errance, 2009

Michel, Marc. Essai sur la colonisation positive: affrontements et accommodements en Afrique noire, 1830-1930. Paris: Perrin, 2009.

Piquet, Caroline. La Compagnie du canal de Suez: une concession française en Egypte, 1888-1956. Histoire maritime. Paris: Pups, 2008.

Roux, Simone. Paris in the Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.

Sempère, Emmanuelle. De la merveille à l'inquiétude: le registre du fantastique dans la fiction narrative au XVIIIe siècle. Mirabilia. Pessac: Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2009.

Sutherland, Donald. Murder in Aubagne: Lynching, Law, and Justice During the French Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Tillion, Germaine. Fragments de vie. Paris: Seuil, 2009.

Italian

Arcangeli, Letizia, and Susanna Peyronel Rambaldi. Donne di potere nel Rinascimento. I libri di Viella, 85. Roma: Viella, 2008.

Ascheri, Mario, and Fabrizio Nevola. L'ultimo secolo della Repubblica di Siena: politica e istituzioni, economia e società. Siena: Accademia senese degli Intronati, 2007.

Balestrini, Nanni. Blackout ; Vivere a Milano ; Ipocalisse. Nanni Balestrini opere. Roma: DeriveApprodi, 2009.

Bianchi, Lorenzo, and Alberto Postigliola. Dopo Machiavelli = Après Machiavel : atti del convegno organizzato dal Dipartimento di filosofia e politica dell'Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" in collaborazione con l'Université de Bourgogne e l'Istituto italiano per gli studi filosofici : Napoli, 30 novembre-2 dicembre 2006. Quaderni del Dipartimento di filosofia e politica, Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", 38. Napoli: Liguori, 2008.

Candela, Elena, and Angelo R. Pupino. Napoli nell'immaginario letterario dell'Italia unita: atti del convegno, Napoli, 6-9 novembre 2006. Domini, 80. Napoli: Liguori, 2008.

Frova, Carla, Ferdinando Treggiari, and Maria Alessandra Panzanelli Fratoni. Maestri, insegnamenti e libri a Perugia: contributi per la storia dell'Università (1308-2008). Milano: Skira, 2009.

Müller Pozzebon, Graciela. Pasolini e la cultura europea sua contemporanea: una bibliografia, 1961-2004. Bibliotheca, 35. [Palermo]: Palumbo, 2008.

Paoli, Marco. La dedica: storia di una strategia editoriale : Italia, secoli XVI-XIX. Lucca: M. Pacini Fazzi, 2009.

Seminario di studi "Il Mediterraneo delle città, secoli XVI-XXI", and Franco Salvatori. Il Mediterraneo delle città: scambi, confronti, culture, rappresentazioni. I libri di Viella, 86. Roma: Viella, 2008.

Wednesday primary source #6 - Servita/Sarpi

Title: Ricordi politici di Fra Paolo Servita, Consultor di Stato per La Serenissima Republica di Venezia, 1615.
Physical Description: 1 v. (94 p.)
Note: Also contains: "Considerazioni storiche d'un Monaco Veneriano," Historical considerations of a monk from Venice, referring to relations with Germany and Austria.
Summary: How the most peaceful Republic of Venice should be
governed both internally and externally so as to have
perpetual dominion, with which are considered the
interests of all the Princes herein described by
Public Commission. Contains historical information
dating to 884, papal bulls from various popes, and the
growth of the Church under the Italian princes.
Note: State Adviser for the Republic of Venice, Father Paolo
Servito addresses this "To most excellent gentlemen,
Inquisitors of the State."
Note: Purchased, 1983.
Subject (LC): Servita, Paolo.
Subject (LC): Italy--Church history--Modern period, 1559- .
Subject (LC): Venice--History--1508-1797.
Subject (Other): CHR 17th century--Italy.
Repository address: Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford Univ.
Libraries, Stanford, CA 94305.

SPEC-COLL CALL NUMBER COPY LOCATION
1)MSS CODEX M0524 1T MANUSCRIPT

SomRev - Sommaires de Revues

SomRev is an online citation index produced by the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Lyon and its partners. It offers a searchable tables of contents of over 120 French academic journals, mostly in the social sciences - contemporary history, economics, political science, international relations... mostly from the mid-1990s until the present. If available, the citations link to the online content.

http://doc-iep.univ-lyon2.fr/Ressources/Bases/Somrev/s-interrogation.html

SomRev is one several online resources that are worth checking out, including "Dossiers de presse," containing article citations from 10 French newspapers since 2000, and FRIPES, a citation index of social science articles. To get to these, click on "Bases de donnees" from the SomRev site.

There is some overlap between SomRev, Persee (open access), and CAIRN (we have a subscription) - but offerings vary in comprehensiveness, and by dates and titles covered. So the same search on each database will turn up different results.