Municipal Orders of Saint-Louis of Senegal in the 18th Century: Administrative and Scientific Uses - The Example of the Blanchot Register

Ousmane Gaye

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Municipal Orders of Saint-Louis of Senegal in the 18th Century: Administrative and Scientific Uses - The Example of the Blanchot Register

Ousmane Gaye

Published in History Research (Volume 10, Issue 2)

Received: 25 June 2022 Accepted: 17 August 2022 Published: 29 August 2022

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This reflection is part of a research workshop on the cross-use of archives as an object of study by the historian. The communication that was to necessarily ensue produced this text. This article starts from the administrative and scientific professions to examine an archive that we have decided to call: municipal ordinance. This document in the singular constitutes a collection of orders or instructions given by the commander of Senegal to the mayor of the city in the management of the colonial establishment. The first instruction manual retraces the procedure and the context of the production of the document for administrative use. The second user's guide reports on the contribution of the document that has become an archive to historiographical research. This archive, often cited in historiography, is questioned here. It depicts the relationship between a local administration made up of French people and a municipality made up of Senegalese (free blacks and mestizos) in the management of the city. One would be tempted to speak of an inclusive administration, that is to say advocating the direct participation of local inhabitants in the political affairs of the French establishment with the primordial role played by the mayor of the city. In fact, this would risk masking the reality insofar as this situation is obtained not because of the good bouoir of the French but rather after a long struggle of the Inhabitants of Saint-Louis of Senegal. This sociological and political reality structures the context of the archive that will be examined here.

Published in	History Research (Volume 10, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.history.20221002.16
Page(s)	108-112
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Ordinances, Mayor, Municipality, Saint-Louis du Senegal, Administration, Archives

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Ousmane Gaye. Municipal Orders of Saint-Louis of Senegal in the 18th Century: Administrative and Scientific Uses - The Example of the Blanchot Register. Hist. Res. 2022, 10(2), 108-112. doi: 10.11648/j.history.20221002.16

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Ousmane Gaye. Municipal Orders of Saint-Louis of Senegal in the 18th Century: Administrative and Scientific Uses - The Example of the Blanchot Register. Hist Res. 2022;10(2):108-112. doi: 10.11648/j.history.20221002.16

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History Department, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (UCAD), Dakar, Senegal

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