在世界近代史上,法国曾经建立了面积仅次于英国的庞大殖民帝国,殖民地版图涵盖亚洲、非洲、北美洲、南美洲、大洋洲五个大洲。庞大的殖民帝国管理所依靠的不仅是军事,更是一系列政府部门的持续运行,而后者将会产生数量非常庞大的档案。随着20世纪中期殖民地独立运动的兴起,法兰西殖民帝国最终瓦解,法国亟需一个集中保管殖民地档案的机构,这个机构后来成 In the modern history of the world, France established a huge colonial empire just after Britain. Its colonial territory covers five continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America and Oceania. The management of the vast colonial empire depends not only on the military but also on the continuous operation of a series of government departments, which will produce a very large number of archives. With the rise of the colonial independence movement in the mid-twentieth century and the collapse of the French colonial empire, France urgently needed an institution that centralized the archives of colonial settlements, which later became