The French archives are not so fine as ours, but they take care to preserve their local and provincial documents, as well as their national and central records; they give their archivists a regular training, they calendar and make accessible all that time and fate have spared of pre-revolutionary documents.
"Introduction to the Study of History"
Charles V. Langlois Charles Seignobos
We want more: we must have county archives, kept by trained archivists.
"Introduction to the Study of History"
Charles V. Langlois Charles Seignobos