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The map library represents a whole of more than 60 000 parts (it is difficult to count them) being divided into various old and modern funds like in distinct collections.

OLD FUNDS
* The "Dépôt des Fortifications des Colonies" (DFC): Created in 1778, called deposit of the maps and plans of the colonies, by taking away in the deposit of the maps , plans and newspapers of the Navy, in Paris and by sending by the local directions of the fortifications. In Year VIII, it takes the name of "Dépôt des Fortifications des Colonies". In 1880, it is removed, the collections were given to the corps of the artillery of Navy . Then in 1914, the handing-over of the collections is made with the Ministry for colonies then with the Overseas Section of the National Records. It is into 1986 that the transfer of the whole of the funds is done to the C.A.O.M. in Aix-en-Provence. This funds classified by great topographic series of the French possessions but also of the rival countries, (in all 45 handwritten repertories including one published), gathers two kinds of documents:
- the maps and plans, of a rich diversity and a rich composition (general maps, traced rivers and ways, plane burrows, plans of cities and buildings administrative or military) are of indisputable iconographic interest of a rare beauty : really tables, watercolours, drawings with mine and feather, washing etc…
- the memories annotated report events military and historical like the preparation of military action, description of the enemy forces, projects of countryside, parts technical, but also accounts of voyage, reports on the economy and local customs, enticing projects of trade, etc, include them also sketches and drawings.

*Old ministerial files : The series of the funds old of the Colonies contain also maps and plans with the support or in appendix of the treated files. These maps and plans generally remained connected to the registers of origin. For examples: the French Indies C2 224: Fortifications of Pondichéry. Correspondence and plans, 1776. C11B: maps and plans of Louisbourg, the Royal island and certain areas of Canada. XVIIIieth century.

*The atlas Moreau de Saint-Méry : the Louis Médéric Moreau de Saint-Méry's collection (F3) . This legal man (1750-1819), creole of Martinique , adviser with the higher Council of Santo Domingo, deputy of Martinique to Constituent, benefitted from his public office to satisfy his documentary passion for the development of an encyclopaedia remained at the stage of "alphabetical repertory of the colonial concepts" unfinished. The State extremely judiciously repurchased this collection at the XIXieth century. Concurrently to plans of 1627 for Martinique, 1692 for the Grenade, the maps of the Atlas Moreau de Saint-Méry date from the XVIIIieth century and the whole beginning of XIXieth century : drawings with the mine, pen-and-ink drawings raised of washing or watercolour, or engravings, giving a general cartography of the delimitations, plans of cities, soils, forts, buildings and projects of work. All are in the form of atlas connected or simply dismembered, the plans are then stuck on board. A pretty series of watercolours of Trouard de Riolles according to Moreau de Jonnès on Martinique was acquired by the Public Records a few years ago and comes to increase this prestigious funds agreeably. The classification is roughly speaking topographic, especially the Antilles, singularly Martinique and Santo Domingo, North America, Indian Ocean (Mascareignes) etc...

MODERN FUNDS
*Modern ministerial files: The second colonial rise gave place to significant cartographic work related on exploration and the discovery, the international divisions, the political taking possession and the economic development. That involved an enormous cartographic production, coordinated by the geographical Service of the colonies, created in 1899, whose attributions were: formation of collections of the maps and geographical documents relating to the French colonies. The classification and the implementation of the maps and original sketches transmitted by the colonial administrations followed as well as the publication of new maps, the classification of the treaties, the examination from the geographical point of view of all the official publications concerning the colonies. These collections count surveys of routes, missions of exploration (mission Gallieni, Coppolani...), plans of borders, charts of military interest, drawings of coasts, maps of the hydrographic networks and routes transportation, plans of cities and villages, maps of agricultural or mining concessions. Often these maps take annotations on the cultures, fauna and the flora, the populations, the heads of village, etc. They testify to the immense progress operated at the end of the XIXieth century by the care of the explorers and the topographers in the discovery of the geography of the interior grounds. They constitute a significant source which illustrates or reveals certain data of the history of the conquest and the French establishment. The unit is composed of many charts engraved (in thousands), and unquestionable handwritten (approximately 50 for Guyane).The classification takes place by great geographical sets: Africa, Antilles, Asia, Guyana and South America, Indian Ocean, Oceania.
*It should be noted that many maps remained in their file of business, and are thus preserved under their dimension of geographical series, singularly for the African continent.
*In the same way, Algeria, which did not raise of the ministry for the Colonies but of the Interior, appears nevertheless in the collections of the CAOM, by keeping its original reference (F80: Algeria) and includes 10 pportfolio (F80 2030 to 2037 and 2039 to 2040).
*From 1944, the IGN (National Geographical Institute) is charged with the cartographic cover of the colonies, and undertakes to complete an exhaustive cover of the territories under French sovereignty. The publication is sometimes posterior at the independence. To note: a project concluded : the cartographic cover of the Sahara to the 1/200 000e. The classification is topographic by colonies also protectorates of Tunisia and Morocco, and condominium of New Hebrides islands.
*The funds of the "Cartes toilées sphériques" (CTS), is composed of a rather disparate whole of topographic, hydrographic and administrative maps printed, missions and roads. The maps are of great dimension, on material support and often like planisphere type. The classification is topographic. Are represented : Africa and Madagascar especially, Indo-China and Cochinchine, Reunion, Ethiopia and the French Coast of Somalis, but also Morocco, Syria and Holy Land.
*The funds of the Overseas Museum of France (Musée FOM) become museum of African and océanian arts, is composed of 76 charts engraved or handwritten colors maps (roads, missions, cultures, or simply topographic maps established by the Geografical Company ).The classification is geographical and relates to the French West Indies and American, South America, Indo-China and Siam, Reunion, Polynesia.
*The funds of the "Files of the geographical service of the colonies" is not only cartographic since the maps are involved in booklets and administrative documents such as accounts, reports on the borders, or roads etc... The aereas are : Africa especially for the missions and borders of the AEF, India, Indo-China, Madagascar and the Comoros, etc...

FUNDS REPATRIATE
These collections are of a great diversity : political maps, urban and geographical maps, archaeological atlas of Algeria , for example map of 1952 indicating the zones of emigration in France according to Algerian districts , economical maps, even map of publicity of the Air-France company associated with the "maps Dunlop routes" and many companies (Nestle, General Company, etc.) The classification by letter of A to G mixes all the territories.

CONTINUOUS SERIES (PL)
The news maps are currently classified, whatever is the source, in the series continues PL, they are as well maps extracted from repatriated funds (such as GGA or GGI, the original reference is simply announced), that maps acquired by gift, dation or purchase on sale public. For some, they go up with the XVIIieth century. The classification is done by formats: 1 PL corresponds to the documents lower than 92 by 65 centimetres, 2 PL corresponds to the documents ranging between 92 by 65 centimetres and 153 by 113 centimetres, 3 PL corresponds to the documents of great dimension in roller, 4 PL relates to the collections of maps connected such atlases... The areas are all colonies.

FUND Of PRIVATE ORIGIN
*Funds Michel Pasha (102 APOM), charts insulated or in portfolio (atlas), resulting from the service from the lighthouses and beacons ottoman concerning the projects and lighthouse installations of the Mediterranean circumference and the Persian Gulf. (XIXieth - XX°ieth ).
*Funds Castries (comte Henri de la Croix de Castries, 1850-1927, officer, geographer and historian of Morocco), gift of the Departmental Records of the Maine-et-Loire in 1988. Maps are not classified still and covering the Maghreb specially.
*Funds of the French Company of New Hebrides Islands (SFNH), bottom by Higginson. Together of charts not classified on New Hebrides Islands, but saved during the repatriation of the charts of the Overseas Section in the National Records.
*Funds of the agricultural Company of Martinique, " Le Galion" (118 AQ). About twenty plans form the non quoted unit, but other graphic documents are in the files: for example the map of the project of building one veranda in Martinique with the completely remarkable XIXieth century (original reference : 118 AQ 248).

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