Resources
Technical and methodological references, useful for public or private persons, owners or managers of historic monuments, remarkable gardens and heritage sites but also for students training in heritage trades, are regularly updated by the sub-directorate for historical monuments and heritage sites and are also accessible through the pages dedicated to interventions and approaches.
Apart from the collection of reviews and glossary, the publications gathered here are grouped by domains (buildings, movable objects, musical instruments, cathedrals, parks and gardens, heritage sites, etc.) but can also be searched by type (reviews, guides, technical guides, fact sheets, books or periodicals, etc.) using the following search form:
NFPC and RCAP Board Balance Sheets
- 2021 NFPC and RCAP Board Balance Sheet
- NFPC and RCAP Commission 2020 Update
- 2019 NFPC and RCAP Board Review
Assessment of protection under historic monuments
Status Reports on Protection of Heritage Sites
Health records of historical monuments
- Report 2013-2018 - Health status of historic monuments
- Report on the health of the French monumental park - 2007
Balance sheet of appropriations for historic monuments
- Balance Sheet 2021 - Historic Monuments Funding
- Report Card 2020 - Historic Monuments Funding
- Review 2019 - Historic Monuments Funding
Theft records, refunds, etc. of protected movable objects
The essentials
- Practical guide to useful resources for preparing documentation prior to the restoration site
- Glossary of terms relating to interventions on historical monuments
The practical guides
- Conservation of Movable Objects in Churches - Self-Assessment Tool
- Treasures of churches and cathedrals
The practical sheets
- Memorandum on legislation on historic monuments (movable objects)
- The public domain - Furniture of cultural interest
- Protection of industrial, scientific and Technical - Description, obligations and benefits
Theft records, refunds, etc. of protected movable objects
- Balance Sheet 2020 - Theft, disappearance, damage and restitution of movable objects
- Balance sheet 2019- Theft, disappearance, damage and restitution of movable objects
- Report 2017-2018 - Theft, disappearance, damage and restitution of movable objects
The bibliographies
Safety plan for cathedrals
The practical sheets
- Fact sheet 1: Cultural use of cathedrals
- File no. 2: Legislative and regulatory references
- Fact Sheet 3: The Role of the Curator of Historic Monuments in Cathedrals
- Sheet 4: Safety in cathedrals
- Sheet 5: Safety in cathedrals
- File no. 6: Modification work in cathedrals
- Fact Sheet 7: Funding for Cathedrals
- Fiche n°8: The organization of concerts and other cultural events in cathedrals Appendix to form no. 8: Indicative model for the agreement of the assignee of the cathedral
- Record 9: Preserving and Using a Cathedral Organ
- File no. 10: Opening to the public and managing a cathedral treasure
- Fact Sheet 11: The police of worship in cathedrals
- File no. 12: Filming, shooting and sound in cathedrals
The practical guides
The appropriation orders
The practical sheets
- The Garden management plan
- Gardens protected under historic monuments and other legislation
- Dealing with the storm in a remarkable garden
- Plant roofs and plant walls
The study days of the meetings in the gardens
- 2022 - Gardens in the face of climate change
- 2021 - The transmission of knowledge
- 2020 - The transmission of knowledge
- 2019 - Animals in the garden
- 2018 - Europe of gardens
- 2017 - Sharing in the garden
- 2016 - The colours of the garden
- 2015 - The walk in the garden
- 2014 - The child in the garden
- 2013 - The garden and its creators
- 2012 - The garden and its images
- 2011 - The Garden Garden
- 2010 - The gardener and his tools
- 2009 - Land, land, territory
- 2008 - The journey of plants
- 2007 - Water, the living spirit of the garden
Conference and study day proceedings
Fact sheets
- Ranking of Outstanding Heritage Sites
- The Remarkable Heritage Sites Classification Procedure
- Effects of Ranking as Notable Heritage Sites
- The backup and enhancement plans
- Legend of backup and enhancement plans
- Architecture and heritage development plans
- Legend of architectural and heritage development plans
- The creation of perimeters delimited around historic monuments
- Work in the vicinity of historic monuments and in remarkable heritage sites
- Prepare his appointment at the departmental unit of architecture and heritage
Status Reports on Protection of Heritage Sites
Here are presented reviews or works relating to historical monuments and heritage sites produced by the Ministry of Culture or its public institutions or supported on an ad hoc or recurrent basis within the framework of national policy of dissemination of knowledge.
