Regulations and opening times

Access rules

• Exhibit a valid document to reception and collect the visitors' badge, which must be dworn and visible at all times. 
• Leave purses, bags and other personal belongings in the appropriate containers, which can be found close to the reception office; users will be asked to keep the key of their container. 
• Sign the Archive's visitors' book. 
• Fill in a form to record name and address, the object of study and aim of research. 
• Determine, through an interview with the reference filing clerk or other archive assistants, the theme of study and the coordinates of the research.

Request for documents

• Users are free to refer to archive tools and request the available documents. 
• Requests for documents or parts of them which are being restored, exhibited, taken stock of or in precarious conditions, cannot be met. 
• Before consulting documents, users will need to fill in a request form, provided by the office workers. 
• Users can consult papers, drawings and particularly fragile documents only if assisted by the Archive operators.

Photographs

Appropriate behaviour in the study-room

• Smoke, eat or drink, speak in a raised voice; 
• Take photos or film shots of any kind without permission; 
• Enter the administration offices unescorted by authorized personnel.