Archives, historical tools

Under the aegis of

GET

DEST
(Direction de l'Enseignement Supérieur
des Télécommunications)

DSE
(Direction des Services d'Enseignement)

Ministry for Post
& Telegraphs

Title

EST
('Ecole supérieure de Télégraphie' or School of Telegraphy)

Location: rue de Grenelle,
Ministry for Post & Telegraphs

List of EST Directors

EPSPT
('Ecole professionnelle supérieure des Postes & Télégraphes' or Professional Posts & Telegraphs School)

Two sections:
- technical section (takes over EST teaching)
- section specific to senior administrators

Ministry of Finance, responsible for Post & Telegraphs

List of EPSPT Directors

First reform: deletion of the main discipline: 'history of social relations and scientific progress'

Mandatory course for obtaining the certificate
(reinforcement of technical courses to the detriment of general knowledge courses)

Reform by the Director, Edouard ESTAUNIE
(introduction of courses common to both sections)

ESPT
Ecole supérieure des Postes & Télégraphes

(Posts & Telegraphs School)

Deletion of the word ''professionnelle'' ('professional') from the school’s title

List of ESPT Directors

Creation of a department of studies and technical research within the school

Change of premises: rue Barrault
Separation of research department

ENSPTT
Ecole nationale supérieure des Postes, Télégraphes & Téléphones

(National Posts, Telegraphs & Telephones School)

'Légion d'honneur' (Legion of Honour) awarded to the school by Albert LEBRUN, President of France

The ENSPTT is split into two bodies:
- the ENSPTT which trains administrative managers,
- the ENST ('Ecole nationale supérieure des Télécommunications' or National Telecommunications School), which would later become Télécom Paris

Creation of a 'Direction des services d'enseignement' (Department of Teaching Services) (DSE) grouping together the two schools.

The ENSPTT closed on 31 December 2002

List of ENST Directors

Creation of the 'corps interministériel des ingénieurs des Télécoms' (interministerial Telecoms engineers corps)

Reform of the DSE
('Direction des services d'enseignement' or Department of Teaching Services)
which becomes the DEST
('Direction de l'Enseignement Supérieur des Télécommunications' or Department of Telecommunications Teaching)

List of DEST Directors

Creation of ENST Bretagne in Brest

Rennes branch created in 1986

List of ENST Bretagne Directors

Creation of the INT in Evry
('Institut national des télécommunications' or National Telecommunications Institute)

List of INT Directors

The ENSPTT moves to rue Dareau until its closure in 2002

Creation of the ENIC in Lille
ENIC became- Télécom Lille 1 in December 2005

Economic interest group founded by the INT and the Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille 1 (Lille 1 University of Science and Technology)
ENIC changed its name in December 2005: it is now known as 'Télécom Lille 1'.

France Télécom is the new name for the DGT ('Direction Générale des Télécommunications' or Government Department of Telecommunications)

Creation of EURECOM in Sophia-Antipolis

Economic interest group founded by Télécom Paris and the Ecole Polytechnique de Zurich (Zurich Polytechnic)

Creation of GET by decree of 26 December 1996

Public administrative institution made up of four bodies:
- ENST (Télécom Paris)
- ENST Bretagne
- INT
- SAG ('Service d'administration générale' or General Administration Department)

Attachment to the CGTI ('Conseil général des technologies de l'information' or Committee for information technologies) at the Ministry of Industry

since 1997: Marc OBERLE, general director

Creation of the IAAI (Marseille)
Institute of Advanced Internet Applications (IAAI) in Marseille

Economic interest group founded on 12 April 2001 by
- ENST Bretagne on behalf of GET
- the 4 universities of Aix-Marseilles
Opened: September 2001
Following the reorganization of the Aix-Marseille university center, on 1st September 2004, GET has withdrawn from the Economic Interest Group. The IAAIESIL . is continuing its work within the University of Aix-Marseille II, housed within

DEST Directors
1971-1996

General Directors of GET
1997- today

Directors of the EST (Ecole supérieure de télégraphie)
1878 - 1887

Directors of the EPSPT
1888 - 1911

Directors of the ESPT
1991 - 1942

Directors of the ENST (Télécom Paris)
1942 - today

Directors of ENST Bretagne
1977 - today

Directors of INT Evry
1979 - today

1998-2004

Association for the history of telecommunications and information techniques (AHTI)

46, rue Barrault
75013 Paris

ahti@noos.fr

The association was formed in Spring 2000 to foster the development of historical studies on telecommunications and information processing in the 19th and 20th centuries, relating them to major contemporary changes.

France Télécom
Archives and Historic Heritage

Head Office General Services
6 place d'Alleray 75505 Paris Cedex 15.
Tel.: 01 44 44 58 14
Fax: 0144 44 58 19

Manager: Michel Atten.
By appointment.

Archives Department:
49 rue Maurice Gunsbourg 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine

Historic Collections Department:
61-63 avenue Kellermann, 95230 Soisy-sous-Montmorency

Institute for economic and social research in the field of telecommunications (IREST)

11-17 rue Hamelin
75783 Paris Cedex 16
Tel.: 01 45 05 70 78

info@irest.asso.fr

IREST, founded in 1975, is an association aimed at fostering the development and dissemination of economic and social studies in the field of telecommunications.

National Federation of Post & Telecommunications Personnel Associations for Historical research (FNARH)

19, rue Emile Bertin
54039 NANCY
Tel.: 03 83 28 85 00 - 03 83 27 68 00
Fax: 03 83 90 20 88

FNARH@wanadoo.fr

Objective: to relate the history of the men and women working in the field of post and telecommunications, the history of professions and to collect heritage.

Achievements: it is the author of books and seminars and federates 36 associations and 15 museums (which are not necessarily part of the post & telecommunications world).

Center for Contemporary Archives
2 rue des archives
77300 Fontainebleau
Tel.: 01 64 31 73 00
Fax: 01 64 31 73 03
cac.fontainebleau@culture.gouv.fr

The Center for Contemporary Archives groups together archives for central State departments since 1958.
The ENSPTT archives can be found there.