提到法国档案工作的历史,大约是在800年前国家开始对其有组织地进行管理的。但把政府档案集中于一处统一管理在君主立宪制下的当时是没能实现的。在1793年法国革命之前,政府及中央各机关都是各自保存自身活动中形成的档案文件。最初在国家档案馆里收集的大革命爆光前的档案,都是分散在巴黎 Referring to the history of the French archives work, it was about 800 years ago that the country began to organize it in an organized manner. However, it was not possible at the time to focus the government archives on a unified management under the constitutional monarchy. Before the French Revolution of 1793, the government and all the central government agencies each preserved the archives formed in its own activities. The archives that were first collected in the National Archives before the explosion of the Grand Revolution were all scattered in Paris