If you are a legal professional and need to support a complex case in which historical context and biographical or heritage elements are important for understanding the present, we can assist you in the following areas (and provide you with some concrete examples):
- History (gathering information on an owner who was dispossessed under the Vichy regime or on a provisional administrator, finding a judgment or restitution order, etc.).
- Heritage (Finding traces of aid granted to an artist during the Occupation, checking whether an art dealer or collector suspected of collaboration was the subject of a police investigation, etc.).
- Inheritance (Tracing an ascending genealogy, searching the registry archives, finding traces of an individual in the public assistance archives, etc.)
- Land (Reconstructing a chain of ownership, finding a document attesting to former easements, unearthing an old map, etc.)
- Etc.