HISTORY AND ARCHIVES: NOTES ON DOCUMENTS

Abstract

This article starts with the critical reading of the historical discourse and, more widely, of a model of knowledge in which an association between a historiographical tradition and the dependency on the research in archives was identified. It still considers the changes made in the archivistique, and in its consequent process of separation from History, to the benefit of the analysis of the processes, in a whole made of the technologies of information. It also analyses the relationship between the two subjects from a common instance assigned to both: the memory and its results, between the risks of forgetting and the cult to the past.