{"id":623,"date":"2013-07-26T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geniwal2.info-brihaye.lu\/?p=623"},"modified":"2023-04-10T23:32:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T21:32:40","slug":"la-perte-quasi-totale-des-archives-de-tournai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geniwal2.info-brihaye.lu\/en\/nos-pistes\/pistes-genealogiques-en-belgique\/archive-en-belgique\/la-perte-quasi-totale-des-archives-de-tournai\/","title":{"rendered":"The almost total loss of the Tournai archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In early May 1940 the town of Tournai was the scene of several light air attacks by German forces.  Between 16 May and 18 May, there were several major bombardments of the town. The presence of British forces in the town was certainly the cause of this barbarity.<br \/>\nMany fires break out<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/geniwal2.info-brihaye.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tournai-archives-de-la-ville-avant-1940.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-625 aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/geniwal2.info-brihaye.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tournai-archives-de-la-ville-avant-1940-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"Tournai archives de la ville avant 1940\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/228;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nall over the town. Due to a lack of resources and manpower, the fire brigade was unable to extinguish the many fires before the end of the day. This act led to the loss of many archival documents deposited in Tournai at the time. These included Tournai's rich municipal archives, which contained collections of exceptional interest, some dating back to the end of the 12th century.<sup>e<\/sup> century.<br \/>\n<strong>There were also :<\/strong><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verroken.be\/fr%20chirographe.htm\">Tournai chirographers<\/a> which included at least 500,000 acts for the period from 1194 to 1795 and of which the collection of Tournaisian wills was a part.<br \/>\nThe series of Tournaisian registers, including the Consaux registers, which were preserved from the end of the 14th century, is now available.<sup>e<\/sup> century until 1793.<br \/>\nThe \"law registers\", after a few copies from the second half of the 13<sup>e<\/sup> century.<br \/>\nA series of registers from 1313 to 1792, in which all the important decisions of the urban authorities were recorded.<br \/>\nFind out more :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.verroken.be\/fr%20la%20perte%20totale%20des%20archives%20de%20Tournai.htm\">http:\/\/www.verroken.be\/fr%20la%20perte%20totale%20des%20archives%20de%20Tournai.htm<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Au cours du d\u00e9but\u00a0 du mois de mai 1940 \u00a0la ville de Tournai fut le th\u00e9\u00e2tre de plusieurs attaques a\u00e9riennes l\u00e9g\u00e8re des forces Allemandes.\u00a0 Entre le 16 mai et le [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive-en-belgique","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geniwal2.info-brihaye.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geniwal2.info-brihaye.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geniwal2.info-brihaye.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal2.info-brihaye.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal2.info-brihaye.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal2.info-brihaye.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal2.info-brihaye.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geniwal2.info-brihaye.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal2.info-brihaye.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal2.info-brihaye.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}