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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).

Correspondence between the Consul [of France] and the Greek Patriarch of Jerusalem, renting contracts, correspondence including letters with French Foreign Office and letters in Arabic and Italian, list of agents with annotations and date.

• Foreign consulates: circulars, regulations, notes (1844-1879).
  • Civil and trade procedure: circulars (several on origin certificates), press clippings, handwritten notes, correspondence (1893-1903).
  • Municipal taxes, other taxes and fees [tithe, pets, butchers, city cleaning, lightning and watering, coach drivers, goods displays]: notes, correspondence, press clippings, circulars, account [many Arabic documents and their translation] (1847-1911).
  • Leisure activities [theatrical performances in schools, cabarets and hotels, monnaies and games of chance, visitors and pilgrims]: correspondence, notes and Arabic circulars with their translation (1859-1912).
  • Occupations [cawas, magistrates, doctors, chemists, mattress craftmen, carding workers, shopkeepers]: correspondence, notes and Arabic circulars with their translation (1883-1912).
  • Hunting, fishing and growing [wheat, vine]: report on vineyards in Palestine, notes and circulars from the Municipality with their translation, correspondence (1872-1911).
  • Movement of people [French citizens, Turkish passports, French assistance]: notes from Ottoman authorities, press clippings, passports regulations, correspondence with the Embassy, correspondence with the prosecutor about French convicted citizens
  • Fire weapons: instruction from the Ottoman authorities and its translation (1909).
    Public health measures: notes and correspondence about rabid dogs and smallpox (1909-1912).
  • Real estate and building issues: correspondence, notes about off-Walls buildings and buildings on "emiri lands" (1908-1912).
  • Waste processing: note (undated).
  • Import and export: circulars about the forbidden goods or cattle (1908-1911).
  • Loan with interests: Ottoman law (1864).
  • Press and Printer’s: notes from the Ottoman authorities (1874-1888).
  • Streetlights holding and closing of the city gates: notes from the Ottoman authorities (1868-1899).

9-a. Political organisation.

• Tanzimat reform, imperial rescript (in force from 1876 to 1878 and from 1908 to 1921) [Hatti Houmayoun]: firman from sultan Abdulmecit I (1856).

• Founding law for constitutionnal monarchy: first constitution of the Ottoman Empire (in French) (1876).

  9-b. Military business, troops in Palestine: correspondence between the French consul in Jerusalem, the French vice-consul in Jaffa, the French ambassador in Constantinople and the French Foreign office (1855-1912).

  9-c. Political business in Palestine (1852-1912).

• From 1852 to 1861: correspondence.
• 1882, Arabi-pacha revolt, Egyptian nationalistic resistance: correspondence between the French consul in Jerusalem and Alexandria, the French vice-consul in Jaffa, the French ambassador in Constantinople and the French Foreign Office (Arabi-pacha, War minister, becomes the leader of the nationalistic resistance).
• 1895, appointement of Turkish ministers: telegrams.
• 1908: correspondence about demonstrations against Austrians and also against Bulgarian independence, about legislative elections in the sandjack of Palestine, about the «Union and Progress» and «Young Turks» Committees, about the appointment of Colonel Riza-bey as temporary governor, and the proclamation of the Constitution.
• 1909: correspondence about demonstrations against Hellenics and Austrians, about the Constitution celebration, about the Naplus revolt, about martial law, and about the Jerusalem people state of mind / mood.

• 1912, elections of Members of Parliament in Jerusalem’s sandjak: correspondence

  9-d. Ottoman celebrations [Sultans’ Day, Opening of Parliament, Constitution Birthdays]: notes from local authorities (1852-1865).

  9-e. Ottoman administrations:

• Customs for salt exportation: correspondence (1845-1855).
• Public debt and indirect taxes service: requests for customs fees exemptions, notes, directives about pubs, correspondence (1854-1912).
• Tobacco services: regulation, requests for customs free exemptions, correspondence about immunity granted to consuls and to smuggling (1863-1913).
• Egyptian Courts: circular, regulation (1876).
• Telegraph Office: letter (1912).

Journal of the Constantinople Chamber of Commerce from April 1893, extract from the Commercial Court sentence about the compulsory liquidation of the Jaffa-Jerusalem Ottoman Railway Company, collection of reports from the board of directors, correspondence.

• French Post Office: correspondence (1909-1914).
  • Maritime delivery service: correspondence, printed forms from Ministry of Finances and Ministry of Commerce [convention and shipping services itineraries], recap charts about French postal liners moves, complaints, correspondence related to shipping of missionaries, request of free shipping for French paupers (1843-1914).

• Relationship with Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem: correspondence (1922).
  • Death of Pope Pius X and appointment of Pope Benedict XV: correspondence (1914-1919).
  • Split between French Consulate and the Holy See: press clippings, Official Journal (1904-1905).
  • Apostolic delegations from Constantinople, Syria and Egypt: circulars, correspondence, death announcements, press cutting (1903-1905).
  • Death of Pope Leo XIII and appointment of Pope Pius X: circulars, correspondence, press clippings (1903).
  • Protection of former pontifical subjects: circular (1881).

Correspondence, press clippings.