Archives constitutionnelles et mémoire de la république
By: MAUS, Didier
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ArticlePublisher: Paris : ENA, avr./jui. 2002Revue Française d'Administration Publique 102, p. 245-258Abstract: The commission for the Constitutional Archives of the Fifth Republic was established by the decree of April 25 2002. Its purpose was to "bring together and, in conformity with the archives law of January 3 1979, ensure the publication of public and private archives concerning the application of the Constitution of October 4, 1958" (article 2 of the decree); it could also "gather written and oral testimonies and participate in work of a historical nature". The commission came into being along with a surge of interest both in historical memory, as witnessed by the growing number of historical committees, and in the Constitution, the Commission having issued from the decree of June 8 1984, in which President François Mitterrand established the National Committee for the Publication of the Preparatory Papers of the Institutions of the Fifth Republic. Nonetheless, though the Commission is the end result of a whole process, it raises specific methodological problems due to the recent and rather heterogeneous nature of the constitutional archives.
The commission for the Constitutional Archives of the Fifth Republic was established by the decree of April 25 2002. Its purpose was to "bring together and, in conformity with the archives law of January 3 1979, ensure the publication of public and private archives concerning the application of the Constitution of October 4, 1958" (article 2 of the decree); it could also "gather written and oral testimonies and participate in work of a historical nature". The commission came into being along with a surge of interest both in historical memory, as witnessed by the growing number of historical committees, and in the Constitution, the Commission having issued from the decree of June 8 1984, in which President François Mitterrand established the National Committee for the Publication of the Preparatory Papers of the Institutions of the Fifth Republic. Nonetheless, though the Commission is the end result of a whole process, it raises specific methodological problems due to the recent and rather heterogeneous nature of the constitutional archives.
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