ABSTRACT
This paper presents some landmarks of the institutionalization of Archival Science in France and in Brazil, in their singularities (and not comparatively), assuming two different realities. Based on a documental and bibliographical research in Brazilian and French institutions, in addition to interviews with French professors, researchers, and archivists, this paper aims to demonstrate the realities of these two countries, even though that, in many aspects, Brazil is deemed as tributary to the French institutional experience. The results show, on the French side, in more detail, landmarks of the theoretical-epistemological path of Archival Science and the political-institutional path of Archives Nationales, of archivists’ formation courses, especially of the École Nationale des Chartes, of the Association des Archivistes Français, of the magazine Gazette des Archives, and of the classifications of archives and of the discipline by French institutions. On the Brazilian side, results show, more synthetically, the institutions and their main initiatives for the creation of courses for the formation of archivists in Brazil.
Keywords:
Archival science; Brazil; France; archive institutions; international interlocutions