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Hi ! I am CocoricoPolynesien and welcome to my user page !

My area of expertise focuses on documentary research on the military and political past of the French Republic. I generally find my happiness in old texts forgotten by all and try to pass it on.

If you wish to contact me, head to my talk page; if you wish to explore my contributions on all the projects associated with wikipedia, use the navigation bar just above. Finally, you will find below articles I worked on.

Have a nice day ! :)

This section is for my ego.

		The France Barnstar of National Merit
		Thanks for all the good work on all the military related pages, and now cabinets. Skjoldbro (talk) 09:53, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

	The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
	Thank you for your continued service adding to Wikipedia throughout 2020. - Cdjp1 (talk) 12:01, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Except some articles (in bold), I am not the author of the following. I just maintain, translate, source and improve them.

A short guide on where to find official and reliable information (in French) on topics related to French politics, military, debates...

Since 1789, the French administration keeps records of everything related to the government and its actions. These were and still are compiled in gazettes and collections available on mainly two websites, Legifrance and Gallica.

The first one is a governmental repository of all current laws and the publication place of the Journal Officiel de la République Française ; long story short : anything has to be published in it to be legally binding, otherwise it is considered null and void. However, it was only created in 1869.

The second website is the one of the National Library of France (BNF). It contains, among million of things, the Bulletin des lois de la République Française, Bulletin of Laws of the French Republic. It was published between 1789 and 1931 before being fully replaced by the Official Journal.

My personal advice to maximize your chances of finding something you are looking for is to use the Bulletin of Laws for 1789 - 1871 and the Official Journal for 1871 - Present. Reasons are that with the Official Journal creation in 1869, the Bulletin of Laws was gradually replaced and lacked some texts. But same goes for the Official Journal, not fully complete until at least 1871.

Colony		Period	Archives
Algeria		1842 – 1884	[23][24]
1962 (State of)	[25]
	Oran	1872 – 1924	[26]
Cameroon		1916 – 1936	[27]
Equatorial Africa		1910 – 1959	[28]
	Gabon-Congo	1887 – 1889	[29]
	Congo	1891 – 1906	[30][31]
	Gabon	1904 – 1908	[32]
	Ubangi-Shari – Chad	1907	[33]
Guadeloupe		1882 – 1936	[34]
Guiana		1827 – 1949	[35][36][37][38]
India		1868 – 1942	[39][40][41]
Indochina		1889 – 1954	[42][43][44]
	Cochinchina – Annam – Tonkin	1873 – 1900	[45]
	Annam	1902 – 1949	[46][47]
	Cambodia	1884 – 1948	[48]
	Cochinchina	1903 – 1945	[49][50]
	Laos	1908 – 1941	[51]
	Tonkin	1902 – 1949	[52][53]
	Vietnam (center)	1949	[54]
Madagascar		1896 – 1958	[55]
Martinique		1837 – 1947	[56][57][58][59]
New Caledonia		1860 – 1949	[60][61]
Réunion		1848 – 1912	[62][63]
Saint Pierre and Miquelon		1938 – 1948	[64]
Somaliland		1900 – 1949	[65]
Syria & Lebanon		1920 – 1946	[66]
	State of the Alawites	1925 – 1932	[67]
	State of Aleppo
	State of Damascus
	State of Jabal Druze
	State of Greater Lebanon
	State of Syria
Tahiti – Establishments of Oceania		1853 – 1902	[68][69]
West Africa		1902 – 1904	[70]
	Dahomey	1940	[71]
	Guinea	1901 – 1948	[72]
	Ivory Coast	1900 – 1908	[73]
	Mauritania
	High Senegal-Niger	1919 – 1924	[74]
	Niger	1938 – 1949	[75]
	Senegal
	Sudan	1925 – 1958	[76]
	Upper Volta