An Important Collection of French historical documents has recently become accessible in Nantes. While it was known that large collections of French Foreign Office records—many still untouched since they were “repatriated”—were kept in a former army storehouse in Nantes, the Ministère des Relations Extérieurs opened a proper reading room there in the summer of 1987. The archives are located at 19, rue de Casterneau (tel. 40.49.73.29) and are open to the public from Wednesday to Friday between 9.00 A.M. and 6.30 P.M.. With rising interest by researchers the opening days may be increased, but even now a “deroguement” may be granted to work in the reading room during the first days of the week as well. The archives are professionally managed by Mr. Pascal Even (Conservateur et Responsable), Mrs. Elisabeth Caude (Conservateur), and Mrs. Béatrice Thoby (Documentalist). Rules and procedures for admission and on the availability of documents are the same as those applying at the reading room of the Quai d’Orsay in Paris, with the exception that more than three pieces a day can be produced. Xerox copies and microfilms can also be ordered under the rules which are in force in Paris.