Preliminary Inventory to the Louis Loucheur papers
1872 | Born, Roubaix, Northern France |
1916 | Industrial advisor to Russia |
1917 | Minister of Armament (France) |
1919 | Participant in the peace negotiations at Versailles. |
1921 | Minister of Liberated Territories |
1922 | Minister of Commerce |
1921-24 | Negotiator on reparation problems |
1927-28 | Minister of Labor, Hygiene and Social Security |
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Various Topics
Bills for paintings and books in the Loucheur estate a.
Documents prepared for the Court of Honor which dealt with the accusations against Loucheur of having made war profits while in the employ of the government b. 1925
Press clippings dealing with the career of Louis Loucheur appearing after his death in 1931 c.
Plans and sketches for a private house d.
Notes on railway organization e. 1897
Miscellany f.
List of towns commemorating Loucheur
Loucheur's election to the Legion of Honor
Letters of condolence on Loucheur's death in 1931
Manuscript material a.
Appreciation of British military strength by Paul Mantoux 1918 June 21
Three position papers on the outcome of the war by Loucheur 1918
Military correspondence and documents relating to manufacturing of large-scale projectiles b.
Poincaré c.
Poincaré-Clémenceau correspondence dealing with an incident at the end of March 1918
Póincaré's letters to Loucheur
High Court of Justice; Caillaux affair d.
Letters of General Michelet e.
Letters of General Messimy f.
Notes, correspondence, reports relating to the war (Report on army in Italy by Abel Ferry, letter of Paul Mantoux.) g.
Discussion of a unified High Command, Loucheur's description of a trip to Compiègne h. 1918
Letters received by Loucheur during the war by General de Maud'huy and others i.
Miscellany j.
Report by Mr. Dannehaut on events in Belgrade at the declaration of war
Report from Bucharest 1916 October
Report from Kristiana (Oslo) 1917 January
Letter to Philippe Berthelot 1917 April
Notes of the Interallied War Committee k.
Secret Army instructions
Chamber of Deputies -- Secret Committee, sessions 7, 8, and 9 1916 December
Various wartime documents l.
Personal correspondence (to Loucheur) sorted into folders
Unified Allied High Command, commemorative monument at Doullens m.
Newspaper clippings of Loucheur's speeches describing the unification of the Allied High Command of March 26, 1918 n.
Political correspondence with Loucheur as a member of the Chamber of Deputies a. 1923, 1928
La Loi Loucheur sabotée à Cherbourg, Pamphlet b. 1930
Attacks dealing with postwar reconstruction, Inghels attack c. 1921 1922
Loucheur materials as Minister of Labor, Hygiene and Social Security in 1927, (speeches) d. 1928
Discussion (and manuscripts) of raise of cost of living bonuses in 1923 (in the Chamber of Deputies) e.
Article in "Revue de France" on the Pope's intervention in French political life f.
Loucheur speech of February 14, 1919 and debates in the Chamber on reconstruction g. 1919-1920
Loucheur budget discussion h. 1921 November 7
"Aid to agriculture" discussion in the Chamber of Deputies. Loucheur's notes, speech i. 1929 March 12
Folder organized by Loucheur on social security, discussions in the Chamber of Deputies j. 1930
Correspondence and report on the Banque Industrielle de Chine k.
Correspondence and report on the Banque Industrielle de Chine l.
Oil project m. 1921-1927
Financial Questions
Plan for a special tax on war profits a.
Discussion on questions of stabilizing the Franc and exchange problems b.
Arguments justifying special tax of December c. 1925
Financial debates of July 6, 1926 d.
Treasury business, short term loans e. 1926 April-May
Various financial plans f. 1926 October
Various financial notes, proposals, etc. g. 1926
Loucheur's speeches against inflation 1923 1925
Financial discussion including "Projet de loi portant sur la création de resources fiscales pour équilibrer le budget et alimenter la trésoirerie h. 1925
Notes on floating and short-term debts i. 1926
Various projected financial measures j. 1925
Various tax proposals in correspondence about them to Loucheur k. 1925
Loucheur-Coudenhove-Kalergi correspondence l. 1927-1931
Reparations
Memoir on peace negotiations with Germany; dealing with financial questions. (Documents and annexes for internal use of the French delegation only.) a. 1919 March-May
Speech on the peace treaty by Loucheur in the Chamber of Deputies b. 1919 September 11
Two articles on German conditions in 1921, Several notes on reparations discussions in London, notes of a talk with Rathenau c. 1927
Notes for a speech of the 7 November d. 1922
Copy of French edition of the 1919 Peace Treaty with Loucheur autograph e.
Negotiations on the German demand for a moratorium on reparations f. 1921 November-December
Map of the Pacific with various national cable lines marked g.
Reparations problems, Confidential file (Correspondence with M. Vignon, M. Dubois, M. Donner. Letters bear inscription of Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, Ministère de la Reconstruction Industrielle, Ministère des Regions Libéréss.) h. 1921
Letters of M. Jonnart in relative to the Presidency of the Council of Reparations i. 1920 January
Letter of General Demignes (?) to Loucheur dealing with Ruhr industrial negotiations j. 1924 April
Reparation negotiations in 1921 k.
Loucheur's memorandum on Allied reparation policies l. 1921
Reparations negotiations m.
London Conference 1924
Cannes Conference 1922
Brussels Conference 1922 1923
Paris Conference 1923 January
Notes for a speech on reparations 1924 August
Treaty annexes to the Versailles Treaty
Polish-French reparations negotiations a. 1929-1931
Settlement of obligations incurred in the Treaty of Trianon Young plan, Loucheur speeches and notes b. 1930 1931
Notes on inflations c. 1920
International trips, agreements of Wiesbaden
Press clippings, invitations, speeches, of Loucheur's trip through Central Europe a. 1930 May 15-June 1
Documents on London trip b. 1923
Trip to United States and plan of Transatlantic Liner "Paris" only c. 1921
London negotiation d. 1921 December 8-9
Negotiations e. 1921 April-May
Various documents on reparation questions from (including Briand autograph) f. 1921-1924
Agreement of Wiesbaden, meeting between Loucheur and Rathenau g. 1921
Protocols of the discussions leading up to the Wiesbaden agreements h.
League of Nations
Various projects for an international economic conference a. 1924, 1925, 1927
Correspondence with M. André Tardieu about personnel on the Geneva Delegation in 1930 b.
Zuerich manuscript notes for a speech on the economic reconstruction of Europe c. 1922?
Conference at Caen on the League of Nations d. 1928 Januray 9
Conference at Avennes on the League of Nations e. 1928 April 21
Conference at Berne on the League of Nations f. 1927?
League of Nations, 5th Assembly and the work of the Third Commission (Disarmament) g. 1924
Compte rendu of the 4th subcommission
Texts of the work of the 3rd commission
Disarmament projects
Russian Affairs
Various newspaper clippings on Foch's Left Rhine occupation plan a.
Aid to Italy after Caporetto
Robert Cecil correspondence from 1923
Winston Churchill letter (private and confidential) on the Russian problem and the cutting off of French aid to anti-Bolshevik forces 1919 November 21
Letters of M. Noulens, French ambassador to Russia, to Loucheur b. 1916-1918
Letters of Mr. Pleneau (?) to Loucheur
Russia. French-Russian collaboration c. 1916
Report of Capitaine Laurent of the French military mission on the repercussions of the Russian Revolution on the garrison troops in Moscow 1917 March 22-April 4
Viviani trip to Moscow 1916
Notes and documents on Socialism and Bolshevism in Russia (continued)
Correspondence
Reports of a French government observer of the Russian Revolution 1917. (2 manuscripts, excerpts from Russian newspapers in French translation)
Copies of deciphered telegrams sent by the German delegation to the Paris Peace Conference 1919, to the Auswaertige Amt. In each case they pertain to questions that Loucheur is interested in.
Copy of an agricultural report sent by Philip Pétain to Loucheur 1923 March 28
Notes on negotiations dealing with reparations, 10 July 1923 - 28 August 1923, particularly as far as Belgium is concerned, as the result of the Ruhr occupation. (Included is an interview with Foster Dulles on July 25, 1923.) Folder also includes a letter to Loucheur's mother of February 30, 1916
Loucheur's brief notes why Great Britain has not adhered to Article 36 of the statute of the League of Nations, Vth Assembly 1924 September-October
Notes on a speech made to the 1st Commission before the Secretariat, (This speech brought about the action for arbitration proceedings (Art. 36?) 1924 October
Reflections of Jouvenel and Loucheur on a speech of Lord Parmoor (?) 1924 September 5
Interview notes from Hotel Adlon, Berlin 1911 September 11
Notes on the first days of the war 1914
The War Years, This folder includes a set of handwritten notes for the period December 7, 1916 - November 17, 1918 1916-1918
Notes on the convention of ambassadors with the Duke Nicholas 1916
Soviet affairs and meetings at the Paris Peace Conference and copy of a letter from Winston Churchill 1919
Interview with Rathenau at Wiesbaden, (See also Bundle 7, Folder 7) and related material 1921
Affaire Klotz 1922
Personal notes on interviews, Conversation with Dr. Adenauer 1923-1924
Notes on the problem of interallied debts
Interview between Loucheur and Coudenhove-Calergi 1928 January 14
Notes on personal interviews (Poincaré, Briand) 1931
Affairs of Italian press. French subvention of Italian newspaper "Giornale d'Italia" in 1922.
Incident Pierre Hamp and M. Poincaré 1926 December
Action Francaise and Petit Journal 1923
Interviews with Schacht and Stresemann 1924 January 9-10
Loucheur speeches
1925 September
1923 December 23
1927 May 7
Materials on the Hotchkiss Society
Conference of Industrial bodies with the Ministry of Armaments
Paris Peace Conference on German Reparations 1919 April 10
List of Interallied conferences 1919-1921
List of Loucheur's connection and business enterprises with the Lociete generale d'Entreprises 1908-1916
Memorandum on the demission of the Council of Ministers 1920 January 18
Plans for French propaganda in all of Europe in 1929
The statutes of the Societe nouvelle de papeterie
"Texte inédit et secret des conversations entre les quatre avant le remise des conditions d'Armistice aux allemands ----Rethondes; copie autographe... des notes del interprète Paul Mantoux, Chargé par Clemenceau d'informer son conseille economique, London"
Manuscripts, Pamphlets, etc.
SONOPA (Societe Nouvelle de Papeterie). Syndicat Financier
Dossier - Affaire Ouest-Eclair 1931 May
Miscellaneous correspondence, documents, manuscripts, notes, etc. 1927-1930
Pamphlet entitled "Cinea. Entre Eux - Entre Nous." Supplement au No. 11 de la Revue "Mercure de Flandre" 1925 November
Typewritten manuscript entitled "Discours de Mr. Langeron. Prefet du Nord"
Invitation (mimeographed sheet) to a conference of the "Societe d'Histoire de la III Republique."
Miscellaneous materials dealing with the "Commission des Reparations de Dommages"
Typewritten manuscripts, with handwritten annotations
"Valeurs Mobilieres"
"Obligations, Creances, Comptes-Courants"
"Proprietes Immobilieres"
"Meubles Meublants, Bijoux, Objets d'Art"