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Documents related to the legal basis of the Waqf Abou Mediane.
Some documents in the file predate 1948.

• Consuls’ offices: king’s order, deeds, report from the supervising commission on bill about additional credits of 1844, speech, general directive for Consuls abroad (1781-1845).
  • Real estate sale in mixt areas of Algeria (former French colonial district): letter from the War Ministry (1847).
  • Exhibitions: note and correspondence related to Paris World’s Fair of 1867, circular, general rules, general information, map of 1900 Paris World’s Fair, circular about 1903 Marseille Maritim and Colonial Exhibition, booklet and map of 1903 Hanoï exhibition, correspondence, papers on wines at Bordeaux exhibition, correspondence related to Lyon exhibition (1854-1900).
  • Subscriptions and donations for military aviation, the Red Cross, the Saint-Pierre (Martinique) disaster, the erection of a monument, a flood, the Constantinople earthquake: weekly newspaper in Arabic, correspondence, communiqués, exchange certificates, funds sending slips and recap charts (1866-1912).
  • Sinkings: reports from sea rescue companies, circular, correspondence with [French] Foerign Office, telegramms (1868-1882).
  • White slave trade: paper from the Official Journal, dispatches, correspondence (1876-1905).
  • Creation of the Cercle of State and Foreign Office Agents [Association amicale des fonctionnaires et agents du ministère des Affaires étrangères]: status, correspondence, report from the General Meeting, list of members from the Foreign Office (1884-1910).
  • Books for award prices: notes, correspondence (1889-1896).
  • Algerian wintering comity: correspondence (1899).
  • Recovery of abroad debts: requests and answers about the matter with references to regulations, correspondence (1900-1901).
  • Sciences General Journal [Revue Générale des Sciences] Cruises: correspondence, cruises descriptive brochures, telegramms (1901-1911).
  • Publications: correspondence (with an Italian one) about "Ecclesiastical Writers’ New Library" (Nouvelle Bibliothèque des écrivains ecclésiastiques) and Muslim World Journal (Revue du Monde musulman) (1904-1910).
  • Faith spreading: dispatch (1904).
  • Concert in favour of floods victims: correspondence, funds sending slips, exchange certificates (1910)

• Series A « Holy places », 1840-1914.
• Series B « Thematic files of the French consulate in Palestine and Emirate of Transjordan », 1781-1941.
• Series C « Delegation of Free France and End of the British Mandate », 1941-1948.
• Series E « Registers » 1843-1947.

The consulate’s archives show how worked the representatives of France in Jerusalem since 1842 and reveal whom they interacted with : local authorities, the different communities living there, Consulates from other countries, the French Embassy and the French Foreign Office.
These documents are also a way to understand the political and religious conflicts that took place from time to time during that period (Crimean War in 1853).

The B series includes thematic files. Beside the regular correspondence with the French Foreign Office, the French Embassy, the French local authorities, or the French and foreign Consulates and vice-consulates, the series includes many files dealing with the Ottoman administration about economic issues (bank, post and customs offices, shipping delivery service) and about military and legal issues.
Despite a few missing files, records include many documents dealing with the political context in Palestine and the Ottoman and Muslim issues. There are also notes from Beirut and Jerusalem intelligence services.

10-a. Sanitary sea police, regulation: circulars, rules, instructions, decisions and General consul correspondence, reports from the Foreign Office (1822-1910).

10-b. Epidemics

• Bovine plague: instructions, correspondence (1869-1904).
• Cholera: press clippings, little poster from the municipality (in Arabic), account, report from Health Council, instruction from the Italian consul in Jerusalem (in Italian), correspondence, telegrams (1902-1908) ;
• Smpallpox: circular, correspondence (1907-1908) ;
• Meningitis: correspondence with Ottoman authorities (1909).

• Quarantine measure: correspondence (1911).

  10-c. Jerusalem Public Health Office: reports, notes, correspondence (1849-1902).

• Taxes, application of the Chancellery fees (among which one file on French citizens registration and one file on bank holidays): circulars, correspondence, survey on the number of French people living overseas, decree, King’s order (1846-1911).
  • Citizenship, regulations: circulars (1890-1908).
  • Ordinary matters: correspondence with the Jerusalem’s consul (1891-1893).
  • Administration, register of births, marriages and deaths: circulars, correspondence (1897-1909).
  • Press censorship, banned newspapers in Turkey: correspondence (with documents in Arabic) (1904-1913).
  • Correspondence with the French Foreign Office (1904-1905).
  • Panislamism, surveillance and information request: correspondence (1906).
  • Frictions between Turkish and French people in Salt, serious troubles and murder of a young woman: correspondence (1906).
  • Information on Jerusalem’s gate: circulars from the French Embassy, notes, correspondence (1906).
  • Relationships with the French ministry of trade and industry: circular, correspondence (1906-1908).
  • Request for grant and charity, Pari Mutuel: correspondence (1908-1909).
  • New year’s Eve’s reception, protocol: correspondence (1908-1911).
  • Arriving of the Syrian orthodox bishop: letter (1909).
  • Press, consul’s subscription to the politico-commercial newspaper «Le Réveil»: correspondence (1911).
  • Custody drogman: correspondence and complaints about a trial (lots of Arabic documents) (1911).
  • Various items (documents from the "Neuville papers" sent to the French Archives in 1973, put back into the fonds on January 20, 2016): correspondence and telegrams (1822-1914).

• French celebrations [National Holy Day, Constitution Day, Joan of Arch Day, Imperator Day, Saint-Louis Day]: correspondence and memos arranged by year from 1852 to 1914, 1880 circular about National Day (1852-1914).
  • Ottoman legislation [about stamps, weight and measurement standards, steam machine, oil storing places, burials, import and export of horses, tobacco and wine, and the "portefaix" (porter) job: circulars, letters in Arabic with translation, correspondence, stamped poster for a show (1822-1912).

Decrees and orders regardind the distribution of the departments of the Political and Commercial management and the costs of establishment, circulars, poster and fare table for furniture transports, speech, report on diplomatic officers travel expenses, king Louis-Philippe order regarding treaties and conventions between France and foreign countries, correspondence.