The Centre des Archives Diplomatiques de Nantes (the Diplomatic Archives Center in Nantes or CADN) houses extensive collections of French diplomatic files from the 18th-20th centuries. Among scholars of the Modern Middle East, Nantes is most famous for its collections of documents produced by the French mandate in Syria and Lebanon, as well as the French Protectorates in Tunisia and Morocco. However, Nantes also contains thousands of boxes of French consular files from cities around the world. Additionally, the archive has files from several international organizations that France was involved in. Taken together, the CADN is an indispensable stop for anyone working on the Middle East or North Africa in the 19th or 20th centuries.
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