Exhibition: the Worlds of Lucien Rudaux (1874-1947)

Name: Exhibition: the Worlds of Lucien Rudaux (1874-1947)
Start: 2022-09-18T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Archives départementales de la Manche

Lucien Rudaux (1874-1947), «the astronomer of Donville», was a brilliant science lover whose fame went far beyond the limits of France during the first half of the 20th century.

Sunday 18 September 2022, 14:00Passed

Registration

02 33 75 10 10 Register / book: http://archives-manche.fr archives50@manche.fr

Photographic exhibition
The worlds of Lucien Rudaux (1874-1947).
July 8 to December 23, 2022
Lucien Rudaux (1874-1947), «the astronomer of Donville», was a brilliant science lover whose fame went far beyond the limits of France during the first half of the 20th century.
The exhibition presents a selection of his photographs preserved in the Channel Archives. They illustrate the work and the journeys of exploration of this man totally devoted to the sharing of knowledge.

About the location

Archives départementales de la Manche

103 rue Maréchal Juin, 50010 Saint-Lô

Manche
Normandie

The departmental archives, the most old(former) patrimonial service(department) of the department since their creation goes back up(raises) to the Revolution and management of which was confided(entrusted) to the General Council during the first decentralisation, implement five missions: 1\. a mission of control of archives produced to the public people of their spring(competence), 2\. a mission of collection of the administrative archives but also of the private archives which establish(constitute) 3, because of destructions of 1944, a complement essential to bottoms today missing. a mission of classification(ranking) of the collected documents, 4\. a mission of preservation of these documents, 5\. finally, a mission of communication of documents.