Preliminary Inventory to the Louis Loucheur papers

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Title: Louis Loucheur papers
Date (inclusive): 1916-1931
Collection Number: 61001
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: French
Physical Description: 12 manuscript boxes, 1 envelope, 1 oversize folder (5.5 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches, notes, reports, and photographs, relating to industry in Russia during World War I, inter-Allied diplomacy during World War I, war reparations, and postwar French and international politics.
Creator: Loucheur, Louis, 1872-1931
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1961.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Louis Loucheur papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

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

Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence, speeches, notes, reports, and photographs, relating to industry in Russia during World War I, inter-Allied diplomacy during World War I, war reparations, and postwar French and international politics. Includes correspondence by Barthou, Berthelot, Briand, Churchill, Foch, Austen Chamberlain, and letters from Pétain. Includes a set of handwritten notes that deal with Cabinet meetings, army affairs, and interviews on the course of the war. Includes photographs of Louis Loucheur, French industrialist and Minister of Commerce, and/or Aristide Briand and others.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

World War, 1914-1918 -- Russia
World War, 1914-1918 -- Reparations
World War, 1914-1918 -- Diplomatic history
France -- Politics and government -- 1914-1940
Industries -- Russia
League of Nations

 

Various Topics

box 1

Bills for paintings and books in the Loucheur estate a.

box 1

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

box 1

Press clippings dealing with the career of Louis Loucheur appearing after his death in 1931 c.

box 1

Plans and sketches for a private house d.

box 1

Notes on railway organization e. 1897

 

Miscellany f.

box 1

List of towns commemorating Loucheur

box 1

Loucheur's election to the Legion of Honor

box 1

Letters of condolence on Loucheur's death in 1931

 

Manuscript material a.

box 2

Appreciation of British military strength by Paul Mantoux 1918 June 21

box 2

Three position papers on the outcome of the war by Loucheur 1918

box 2

Military correspondence and documents relating to manufacturing of large-scale projectiles b.

 

Poincaré c.

box 2

Poincaré-Clémenceau correspondence dealing with an incident at the end of March 1918

box 2

Póincaré's letters to Loucheur

box 2

High Court of Justice; Caillaux affair d.

box 2

Letters of General Michelet e.

box 2

Letters of General Messimy f.

box 2

Notes, correspondence, reports relating to the war (Report on army in Italy by Abel Ferry, letter of Paul Mantoux.) g.

box 2

Discussion of a unified High Command, Loucheur's description of a trip to Compiègne h. 1918

box 2

Letters received by Loucheur during the war by General de Maud'huy and others i.

 

Miscellany j.

box 2

Report by Mr. Dannehaut on events in Belgrade at the declaration of war

box 2

Report from Bucharest 1916 October

box 2

Report from Kristiana (Oslo) 1917 January

box 2

Letter to Philippe Berthelot 1917 April

box 2

Notes of the Interallied War Committee k.

box 2

Secret Army instructions

box 2

Chamber of Deputies -- Secret Committee, sessions 7, 8, and 9 1916 December

box 2

Various wartime documents l.

box 2

Personal correspondence (to Loucheur) sorted into folders

box 2

Unified Allied High Command, commemorative monument at Doullens m.

box 2

Newspaper clippings of Loucheur's speeches describing the unification of the Allied High Command of March 26, 1918 n.

box 3

Political correspondence with Loucheur as a member of the Chamber of Deputies a. 1923, 1928

box 3

La Loi Loucheur sabotée à Cherbourg, Pamphlet b. 1930

box 3

Attacks dealing with postwar reconstruction, Inghels attack c. 1921 1922

box 3

Loucheur materials as Minister of Labor, Hygiene and Social Security in 1927, (speeches) d. 1928

box 3

Discussion (and manuscripts) of raise of cost of living bonuses in 1923 (in the Chamber of Deputies) e.

box 3

Article in "Revue de France" on the Pope's intervention in French political life f.

box 3

Loucheur speech of February 14, 1919 and debates in the Chamber on reconstruction g. 1919-1920

box 3

Loucheur budget discussion h. 1921 November 7

box 3

"Aid to agriculture" discussion in the Chamber of Deputies. Loucheur's notes, speech i. 1929 March 12

box 3

Folder organized by Loucheur on social security, discussions in the Chamber of Deputies j. 1930

box 3A

Correspondence and report on the Banque Industrielle de Chine k.

box 3A

Correspondence and report on the Banque Industrielle de Chine l.

box 3A

Oil project m. 1921-1927

 

Financial Questions

box 4

Plan for a special tax on war profits a.

box 4

Discussion on questions of stabilizing the Franc and exchange problems b.

box 4

Arguments justifying special tax of December c. 1925

box 4

Financial debates of July 6, 1926 d.

box 4

Treasury business, short term loans e. 1926 April-May

box 4

Various financial plans f. 1926 October

box 4

Various financial notes, proposals, etc. g. 1926

box 4

Loucheur's speeches against inflation 1923 1925

box 4

Financial discussion including "Projet de loi portant sur la création de resources fiscales pour équilibrer le budget et alimenter la trésoirerie h. 1925

box 4

Notes on floating and short-term debts i. 1926

box 4

Various projected financial measures j. 1925

box 4

Various tax proposals in correspondence about them to Loucheur k. 1925

box 4

Loucheur-Coudenhove-Kalergi correspondence l. 1927-1931

 

Reparations

box 5

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

box 5

Speech on the peace treaty by Loucheur in the Chamber of Deputies b. 1919 September 11

box 5

Two articles on German conditions in 1921, Several notes on reparations discussions in London, notes of a talk with Rathenau c. 1927

box 5

Notes for a speech of the 7 November d. 1922

box 5

Copy of French edition of the 1919 Peace Treaty with Loucheur autograph e.

box 5

Negotiations on the German demand for a moratorium on reparations f. 1921 November-December

box 5

Map of the Pacific with various national cable lines marked g.

box 5

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

box 5

Letters of M. Jonnart in relative to the Presidency of the Council of Reparations i. 1920 January

box 5

Letter of General Demignes (?) to Loucheur dealing with Ruhr industrial negotiations j. 1924 April

box 5

Reparation negotiations in 1921 k.

box 5

Loucheur's memorandum on Allied reparation policies l. 1921

 

Reparations negotiations m.

box 5

London Conference 1924

box 5

Cannes Conference 1922

box 5

Brussels Conference 1922 1923

box 5

Paris Conference 1923 January

box 5

Notes for a speech on reparations 1924 August

 

Treaty annexes to the Versailles Treaty

box 6

Polish-French reparations negotiations a. 1929-1931

box 6

Settlement of obligations incurred in the Treaty of Trianon Young plan, Loucheur speeches and notes b. 1930 1931

box 6

Notes on inflations c. 1920

 

International trips, agreements of Wiesbaden

box 7

Press clippings, invitations, speeches, of Loucheur's trip through Central Europe a. 1930 May 15-June 1

box 7

Documents on London trip b. 1923

box 7

Trip to United States and plan of Transatlantic Liner "Paris" only c. 1921

box 7

London negotiation d. 1921 December 8-9

box 7

Negotiations e. 1921 April-May

box 7

Various documents on reparation questions from (including Briand autograph) f. 1921-1924

box 7

Agreement of Wiesbaden, meeting between Loucheur and Rathenau g. 1921

box 7

Protocols of the discussions leading up to the Wiesbaden agreements h.

 

League of Nations

box 8

Various projects for an international economic conference a. 1924, 1925, 1927

box 8

Correspondence with M. André Tardieu about personnel on the Geneva Delegation in 1930 b.

box 8

Zuerich manuscript notes for a speech on the economic reconstruction of Europe c. 1922?

box 8

Conference at Caen on the League of Nations d. 1928 Januray 9

box 8

Conference at Avennes on the League of Nations e. 1928 April 21

box 8

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

box 8

Compte rendu of the 4th subcommission

box 8

Texts of the work of the 3rd commission

box 8

Disarmament projects

 

Russian Affairs

box 9

Various newspaper clippings on Foch's Left Rhine occupation plan a.

box 9

Aid to Italy after Caporetto

box 9

Robert Cecil correspondence from 1923

box 9

Winston Churchill letter (private and confidential) on the Russian problem and the cutting off of French aid to anti-Bolshevik forces 1919 November 21

box 9

Letters of M. Noulens, French ambassador to Russia, to Loucheur b. 1916-1918

box 9

Letters of Mr. Pleneau (?) to Loucheur

box 9

Russia. French-Russian collaboration c. 1916

box 9

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

box 9

Viviani trip to Moscow 1916

box 9

Notes and documents on Socialism and Bolshevism in Russia d.

Scope and Contents note

Hand colored map showing foreign intervention in Russian Civil War.
drawer K03

Notes and documents on Socialism and Bolshevism in Russia (continued)

 

Correspondence

box 10

A - L

Scope and Contents note

Includes correspondence by Barthou, Berthelot, Briand, Churchill, Foch, Austen Chamberlain.
box 11

M - Z

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence includes letters from Pétain (end folder not alphabetically organized).
box 12

Reports of a French government observer of the Russian Revolution 1917. (2 manuscripts, excerpts from Russian newspapers in French translation)

box 12

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.

box 12

Copy of an agricultural report sent by Philip Pétain to Loucheur 1923 March 28

box 12

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

box 12

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

box 12

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

box 12

Reflections of Jouvenel and Loucheur on a speech of Lord Parmoor (?) 1924 September 5

box 12

Interview notes from Hotel Adlon, Berlin 1911 September 11

box 12

Notes on the first days of the war 1914

box 12

The War Years, This folder includes a set of handwritten notes for the period December 7, 1916 - November 17, 1918 1916-1918

General Physical Description note: (87 p.).

Scope and Contents note

The notes deal with Cabinet meetings, army affairs, interviews on the course of the war. (Extremely important.)
box 12

Notes on the convention of ambassadors with the Duke Nicholas 1916

box 12

Soviet affairs and meetings at the Paris Peace Conference and copy of a letter from Winston Churchill 1919

box 12

Interview with Rathenau at Wiesbaden, (See also Bundle 7, Folder 7) and related material 1921

box 12

Affaire Klotz 1922

box 12

Personal notes on interviews, Conversation with Dr. Adenauer 1923-1924

box 12

Notes on the problem of interallied debts

box 12

Interview between Loucheur and Coudenhove-Calergi 1928 January 14

box 12

Notes on personal interviews (Poincaré, Briand) 1931

box 12

Affairs of Italian press. French subvention of Italian newspaper "Giornale d'Italia" in 1922.

box 12

Incident Pierre Hamp and M. Poincaré 1926 December

box 12

Action Francaise and Petit Journal 1923

box 12

Interviews with Schacht and Stresemann 1924 January 9-10

 

Loucheur speeches

box 12

1925 September

box 12

1923 December 23

box 12

1927 May 7

box 12

Materials on the Hotchkiss Society

box 12

Conference of Industrial bodies with the Ministry of Armaments

box 12

Paris Peace Conference on German Reparations 1919 April 10

box 12

Collection of miscellaneous letters

Scope and Contents note

Paul Sunday, E. Moreau, Louis Archimbaud, Ed. Gillet, J. Noulens, Ombredame.
box 12

List of Interallied conferences 1919-1921

box 12

List of Loucheur's connection and business enterprises with the Lociete generale d'Entreprises 1908-1916

box 12

Memorandum on the demission of the Council of Ministers 1920 January 18

box 12

Plans for French propaganda in all of Europe in 1929

box 12

The statutes of the Societe nouvelle de papeterie

box 12

"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.

box 12

Typewritten manuscript entitled "Societe Nouvelle de Papeteries"

General Physical Description note: (2 copies).
 

SONOPA (Societe Nouvelle de Papeterie). Syndicat Financier

box 12

Dossier - Affaire Ouest-Eclair 1931 May

box 12

Miscellaneous correspondence, documents, manuscripts, notes, etc. 1927-1930

box 12

Pamphlet entitled "Cinea. Entre Eux - Entre Nous." Supplement au No. 11 de la Revue "Mercure de Flandre" 1925 November

box 12

Typewritten manuscript entitled "Discours de Mr. Langeron. Prefet du Nord"

box 12

Invitation (mimeographed sheet) to a conference of the "Societe d'Histoire de la III Republique."

box 12

Miscellaneous materials dealing with the "Commission des Reparations de Dommages"

 

Typewritten manuscripts, with handwritten annotations

box 12

"Valeurs Mobilieres"

box 12

"Obligations, Creances, Comptes-Courants"

box 12

"Proprietes Immobilieres"

box 12

"Meubles Meublants, Bijoux, Objets d'Art"

envelope A

Photographs

Scope and Contents note

11 photos depicting Louis Loucheur, French industrialist and Minister of Commerce, and/or Aristide Briand and others. Received through J. de Launay.