Archives départementales de Saône-et-Loire

Tuesday to Friday from 9:00 to 12:30 and from 13:30 to 18:00.

The service is open all year round except on public holidays. Exceptional closures are indicated on the homepage of the website.

Consultation of documents, both original and digitised, is free of charge. Prior registration is required on presentation of an identity document. The reading room is equipped with areas for consulting original, digitised or microfilmed documents. You will receive a free reader's card after filling in a registration form and presenting an official identity document. To gain access to the reading room, you must first exchange your reader's card for a seat card at the reception desk.

In accordance with the Archives' internal regulations, you are asked, for the preservation of the collections, to leave your bags and outdoor clothing in the lockers (free of charge), not to bring any food, liquid or sharp object into the reading room, to use only pencils for your notes and to handle the documents you are given with the utmost care Consultation of the archives is subject to the physical condition of the documents and to the rules of communicability in force - defined by the Heritage Code for public archives and by the producers or their successors for private archives.

Documents may be ordered by computer between 9am and 12.30pm and between 1.30pm and 5pm, subject to a limit of 20 items per day per person. Because the service closes between 12.30 and 13.30, requests made after 12 noon are processed in the early afternoon. It is possible to order up to three documents at the same time, but the items must be consulted one by one.