"Les Archives Nationales",
centers of Paris, incarnates a long tradition of collection and
conservation of the inheritance: royal archives with its prints of
seals of kings, queens or cities, files of the Revolution and the
various Republics. The seal at the Middle Ages that it is of king or
city authenticates an act; it represents
the instrument of a daily legal document, that which validated the
documents and has for that value of signature. The seal of city has as
a characteristic not to show the city such as it is but such as its
notable wanted it symbolized.
