Main collections of departmental public records

1 - Collections before the Revolution n

• A Series (Deedus of the sovereign power): pieces concerning the Counties of Armagnac, of Fezensac, of Gaure,

of l'Isle-Jourdain, Viscounties of Fezensaguet, of Lomagne, countries and jurisdiction of Rivière-Verdun.

• B Series (Courts and jurisdictions before the Revolution, 1544-1791): Armagnac seneschalsy, Lectoure presidial, royal and seigneurial justices of the seneschalsy of Auch, Forestry command.

• C Series (Provincial authorities before 1790): collections of Auch administration; records with copies of the letters from Administrator d'Etigny; community cadastres; road maps, lanes, bridges, buildings (Auch City Hall, Administration); deed control (recordings prior to the Revolution).

• D Series D (Public education, sciences and arts): Jesuit ancient college of Auch; Royal Society of Agriculture (1760 - 1789).

• G Series (Secular clergy): collection of the Auch Saint-Mary's cathedral chapter. Beautiful series of chartularies: black chartulary (13th century): on parchment, copy of 121 deeds dating from 817 to the second half of the 13th century; 1st white chartulary (14th century); on parchment, copy of deeds dating from 817 to the end of the 13th century; second white chartulary (14th century): on parchment, copy of 13th-15th century deeds; red chartulary (15th century): on parchment, copy of 13th-15th century deeds; green chartulary (15th century): copy of 14th-15th century deeds.

• H Series (Regular clergy, 13th-18th centuries): convents and monasteries, hospitals and hospices.

2 - Collections before and after the Revolution

• E Series (feudality, communes, notaries, families, from the 13th to the 20th century) distributed into several subseries:

E (feudality, families);
E additional (commune registered records - approximately 360 communes out of 464).
Important communes: Auch, L'Isle-Jourdain, Nogaro, Vic-Fezensac.
3 E (notaries from the 16th to the 19th century).
5 E (parish and registry office records, from the 16th to the 19th century).

• F Series (miscellaneous private documents): documents from scholars, Alphonse Branet, Abbot Bourgeat, Philippe Lauzun.

• I and I additional Series (collection of the Great seminar of Auch): the Vergès collection, approximately
20 000 pieces, contains the most ancient document in the departmental public records in the form of originals (end of the 11th century), concerning the abbey of Beaulieu-en-Rouergue.
Other remarkable documents: the chartulary of the abbey of Berdoues (13th century), several autographs, among which the one of Blaise de Monluc.

• J Series (collections entered through unusual ways, donations, purchases, bequests, deposits...), collections or pieces alone.

3 - Records from the revolutionary period
and from the 19th century to nowadays

• Series L (Revolution):

L: civil public records
2 L: revolutionary justice
3 L: justices of the peace

• K Series (Printed public records): Official listing of laws, Administration deed compendium, Magazines, Law Gazette.

• M Series (Department's general administration)

• N Series (Department's book-keeping)

• O Series (Commune's book-keeping)

• P Series (Finance, Cadastre, Post Office)

• Q Series (State property, sales of national assets, registrations, mortgages)

• R Series (Military affairs): recruitment, army organisation, supplying

• Series S (Public works): many plans

• T Series (Public education)

• U Series (Justice)

• V Series (Cults)

• X Series (Child-in-care)

• Y Series (Prisons)

• W Series (Collections after 1940)

4 - Iconographic collections

Maps and plans: beautiful maps of the Ancien Régime, maps of Cassini, canton atlases, canton Civil Engineering atlases; postcards, other iconographic documents, microfilms and microfiches.

5 - Library, Newspapers and periodical publications

Over 10 000 volumes, among which an ancient collection: dictionaries (Bayle, La Martinière, Expilly...), Gallia Christiana, Acta Sactorum, Bullary, customary, Nobiliary, Genealogy records.

Main centres of interest: general history (Ancient civilizations, the Middle Ages, the 16th century, the Ancien Régime, the Revolution, the First Empire, the 19th century, the Second World War, well represented); local history, regional literature, Occitan literature, Gascon linguistics, history of art, law.

Annex Libraries: law collection, Baché collection (varia), the Pandellé collection (theology, religious history), Encyclopaedia Diderot and D'Alembert (ed. In-4°), the lycée of Auch library collection, the Castarède collection (printed matter collection).

Newspaper collections from the Revolution until nowadays, national and local periodical publications.

6 - Data records

Archaeological records (per commune), biographical records, records by subject category (a valuable set of records and newspaper cuttings; for example a nearly daily event coverage during the war in Indochina and in Algeria.

7 - Hospital records

Collections from Auch hospital and from Condom hospitals (very rich collection, although incomplete); concerns particularly the history of Protestantism (Layrac consistory deeds and christenings, weddings and burials, 1578 - 1674).

8 - Files

Important set of bio-bibliographic files, of topo-bibliographic files, of onomastic files, a French-Gascon dictionary, Gascony's Armorial, files by subject category.