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Boxes: 1-99

Subject File, 1665-1994

Scope and Content Note

Pamphlets, leaflets, clippings, serial issues, campaign literature, and other printed matter, relating to political conditions and elections in France, especially during the Fifth Republic; socialist and communist movements in France; French radicalism, especially student radicalism during the events of 1968; freemasonry in France; and miscellaneous aspects of pre-twentieth-century French history.
Box 1

General

 

Miscellany

 

1665-1871

 

Correspondence, decrees, maps, drawings, and printed matter, 1665-1871, relating to miscellaneous aspects of French governmental administration under the Bourbon and Orleanist monarchies and to the Paris Commune of 1871. Includes original decrees issued by Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis Philippe. In French

 

1912-1947

 

Bulletins, newspaper issues, and printed matter, relating to various social and cultural conditions in France. Includes copies of the statutes of the Federation Nationale des Syndicats Maritimes, 1912, and of the annual report of the Chambre Consultative des Associations Ouvrieres de Production, 1925. Mainly in French

Box 2-21

Freemasons. Clippings, serial issues, pamphlets, bulletins, and election campaign material, 1807-1947, relating to Freemasonry in France, Freemasons in politics, French politics and international relations in the 1920s and 1930s, the Popular Front, rightist movements in France, and occupied France during World War II. In French

Box 22-30

Socialism. Clippings, newspaper and periodical issues, bulletins, pamphlets and leaflets, issued by communist, socialist, syndicalist and trade-union organizations in France, 1888-1947, relating to the international and French communist, socialist, syndicalist and trade-union movements. Includes resolutions of the third national congress of Syndicats et Groupes Corporatifs Ouvriers de France, 1888. In French

Box 30, 103

Communism. Articles from leftist French newspapers, 1917-1919, relating to the movement for a Third International and to the mutiny of French sailors in the Black Sea. Translations of articles from French and Russian newspapers, 1919-1920, relating to the development of a French communist party and to its adherence to the Third International

 

1870-1940

Box 30

Post World War I reparations. Table, 1924, indicating French war reparation expenditures and internal and foreign debt for 1923, and budget for 1924

Box 89

Souvarine, Boris. Photocopies of Jeannine Verdes-Leroux's articles on Boris Souvarine and reviews of her book A ContreCourant, Ecrits 1925-1939, 1983-1985

Box 97

Miscellany

 

Flyer scattered over Paris by airplane, October 1938, urging Frenchmen to subscribe to defense bonds. In French

 

Sheet music of song written for French reservists, 1939. In French

 

1945-1958

 

Communist Party

 

Speech delivered by Secretary Jacques Duclos at the Marigny Theater, Paris, on March 20, 1946. English translation

 

Anti-American flyer, 1951. In French

Box 94

Elections - 1956. Flyers, leaflets, postcards, ballots, and stamps put out by "Paix et Liberte" and the "Parti republicain radical et radical-socialiste" for the 1956 general elections

 

1958-

Box 31-83, 98

General. Miscellaneous election leaflets, pamphlets, newspapers, magazines, and government documents, 1958-1981, relating to political conditions in France. In French

Box 96

Bi-Centennial celebration of the Revolution of 1789. Correspondence, articles, flyers, circulars, newsletters, and stickers, 1989, issued by the Association 15 Août 1989 and relating to the demonstration held in Paris on August 15, 1989, protesting the celebration of the French Revolution. In French

Box 97

Economy. Booklet by Morvan Duhamel, 1987, relating to the French industry since 1955. In French

Box 89

Education

 

Leaflets and stickers denouncing the government's education policies, gathered at a demonstration which took place at Versailles on March 4, 1984

Box 97

Newsletters and flyers, 1989-1991, issued by various education syndicates

 

Elections

Box 89

1968. Material relating to the general elections of June in Toulouse

Box 97

1974. Miscellany relating to the Presidential election of May 5

Box 89

1985. Material relating to the local elections of March

Box 90-94

1986. Material relating to the legislative and regional elections of March 16

Box 95-96

1988. Material relating to the Presidential elections of April 24 and May 8, and to the legislative elections of June 5 and 12

Box 98-99

1992. Material relating to the local and regional elections of March 22

 

Immigration

Box 96

General. Study on the immigration question in France, n.d., and racist and xenophobic newsletters, magazines, and flyers, 1990. In French

Box 97

Nationality code. Pamphlet, 1987. In French

 

Miscellany. Brochures, 1983-1990, relating to economic development in the island of La Reunion. In French

 

Political parties

 

General. Broadsides, leaflets, and election campaign material, 1950-1961, consisting of electoral and other propaganda from various political parties. In French

Box 89

1950-1961

Box 98

1993

Box 97, 98

Communist Party

 

General. Brochures and leaflets, 1990.

 

Excerpt from the resolution of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party, published in l'Humanite of December 26, 1990

Box 99

Generation Ecologie. Miscellany, 1990-1991

Box 97

Front National. Five posters issued as part of the Front National's two-phase propaganda campaign launched in February 1991, with the message "Le Pen, fast" written in French, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and Russian.

Box 99

Mouvement des Democrates. Miscellany, 1993

 

Socialist Party

 

General. Printed matter, 1993

Box 89

Stickers, 1968

Box 96

Newsletter and ephemera, 1990. In French

Box 99

Union Pour la Democratie Francaise. Miscellany, 1993

Box 97

Public opinion - Gulf War of 1991. Correspondence, newsletters, and flyers, 1991, relating to the Gulf War of 1991 and mostly calling for demonstrations against it

Box 84-88, 98

Student Revolt, 1968

 

General. Pamphlets, leaflets, and serial issues relating to the student-worker revolt of May 1968. In French

Box 89

Miscellany relating to the student-worker revolt of May 1968. In French

 

Photocopies of political tracts, flyers, and broadsides relating to the student-worker revolt at the University of Toulouse in May-June 1968. In French

Box 97

Postcards reproducing posters and slogans of the student-worker revolt gathered in booklet form, 1988

 

Circulars and newsletters issued by various student organizations during the student-worker revolt of 1968

Cassette cabinet, Microfilm cabinet, Tape cabinet

Audi-Visual Material, 1958-1988.

Scope and Content Note

Video and phonotapes, microfilms and cassettes relating to the French Fifth Republic, the Student Revolt of 1968 and the elections of 1988. See also the Hoover Institution Library for 54 microfilm reels of daily French newspapers for the period May 2-July 3, 1968, and 3 microfilm reels of weekly French newspapers for the period April 20-July 4, 1968, covering the student uprising and the June parliamentary elections.
tape-cabinet Tape cabinet

8 phonotapes of interviews of personalities involved in the events of May 1968; 2 videotapes relating to the legislative elections of June 5 and 12, 1988

microfilm-cabinet Microfilm cabinet

17 microfilm reels of newspaper issues from the French and Algerian press analyzing the legislative elections of 1958

cassette-cabinet Cassette cabinet

8 phonotape cassettes of interviews of various political personalities, conducted by Radio France, 1970-1978

 

1 phonotape cassette relating to the legislative elections of June 5 and 12, 1988

Box: 101-102

Incremental Materials 2000-2007, 1918-2007

Box: 101

Newsletters, 1997-2000

Box: 101

Newsletters, 2000

Box: 101

Election campaign literature, 2001-2002

Box: 102

Printed matter and memorabilia (4 folders) 1918 and n.d.

Box: 102

Election campaign literature (17 folders), 2005-2007

Box: 102

Election campaign literature, 2007

Box: 103-104

Incremental Materials

Scope and Content Note

This addition to the collection has not yet been described. Please let the Hoover Institution Archives know if you would like to see this material described. Contact us at hooverarchivesinfo@stanford.edu