On 3 July 1952, the French Government draws up a list of the institutional measures required for the application of the Paris Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).

An anonymous French note on the methods of funding the European Defence Community (EDC).

On 5 October 1956, the Interministerial Committee on the Common Market, the ‘Verret Committee’, sets out the position of France on the association of the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) with the Common Market.

On 10 October 1956, Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, French Minister for National Defence and the Armed Forces, sends a letter to Guy Mollet, President of the French Council of Ministers, in which he emphasises the need for negotiations with the European partners on a Euratom treaty which would give France the possibility of manufacturing nuclear weapons.

In 1950, the leading French steel companies give their reactions to the plan for a common market in steel under the Schuman Plan.

On 22 January 1972, Walter Hallstein, Joseph Bech, Paul-Henri Spaak, Jean Monnet, Jean-Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers and Jean Duvieusart, in particular, attend the ceremony to mark the signature of the Treaties of Accession of Denmark, Ireland, Norway and the United Kingdom to the European Communities.

Discussions held in Paris on 20 and 21 October 1950 to prepare for the implementation of the Schuman Plan. From left to right: Gust de Muynck, Jean Monnet and Pierre Uri.

Affiche du séminaire "The European Communities and the World"

In this anonymous note, officials at the French Foreign Office consider the political motivations and the economic consequences of the implementation of a system of international control for the Ruhr.