Literary estates and archives in French

Some manuscript books of Alice Rivaz (Photo: NL, Simon Schmid)

When the Swiss Literary Archives were established in 1991, they took over the historical holdings of the National Library, including the literary estates of Blaise Cendrars, S. Corinna Bille and Maurice Chappaz, Bertil Galland, Eugène Rambert, Gonzague de Reynold and William Ritter.

Additions to the collection focus primarily on 20th-century writers. Also represented are literary studies and edition history, for example with the literary estate of Georges Poulet and Jean Starobinski and the archive of the Librairie de l’Université de Fribourg (L.U.F.).

The collections in focus

In the following list you will find holdings in French for which additional information is available or that are the subject of ongoing or completed research projects or publications. This list is updated regularly.

• Jean Bollack in the SLA
• Georges Borgeaud in the SLA
• Blaise Cendrars in the SLA
• Maurice Chappaz in the SLA
• Agota Kristof in the SLA
• Jean Starobinski in the SLA

Online inventories (EAD/HTML) of French-language collections

** = entire fond (as far as surviving or known)
* = partial fond

• Barilier, Etienne (1947- )**
• Beetschen, Olivier (1950-)**
• Benoziglio, Jean-Luc (1941-2013)**
• Bille, S. Corinna (1912-1979) : Fonds Maurice Chappaz et S. Corinna Bille
• Bischoff-Ghilionna, Justin (1845-1927)**
• Bloch, Ernest (1880-1959)*
• Bollack, Jean (1923-2012)**
• Borgeaud, Georges (1914-1998)**
• Castella, Gaston (1883-1966)*
• Cendrars, Blaise (1887-1961)**
• Chappaz, Maurice (1916-2009) : Fonds Maurice Chappaz et S. Corinna Bille**
• Chessex, Jacques (1934-2009).**
• Comment, Bernard (1960- )**
• Contat, Michel (1938-)**
• D'Alessandro, Raffaele (1911-1959)**
• Daulte, François (1924 - 1998)*
• Delarue, Claude (1944-2011)**
• Donzé, Roland (1921-2011)**
• Dragonetti, Roger (1915-2000)**
• Ecoffey, Alice (1890-1977)**
• Eigeldinger, Marc (1917-1991)**
• Favre, Gilberte (1945- )*
• Franzoni, Luc : Collection Luc Franzoni (1952- )*
• Galland, Bertil (1931-)**
• Godel, Vahé (1931- )**
• Grobéty, Anne-Lise (1949-2010)**
• Heym, Cornélius (1926-1997)**
• Index du Bulletin du Cercle d’Études Internationales Jean Starobinski
• Jaccard, Roland (1941- )**
• Kristof, Agota (1935-2011)**
• Kuffer, Jean-Louis (1947- ) : Fonds Jean-Louis Kuffer**
• La Dogana, éditeur**
• Librairie de l’Université de Fribourg (L.U.F.)
• Lovay, Jean-Marc (1948- )**
• Marmier, Jules (1874-1975)**
• Memoriav: Images et voix de la culture suisse (IMVOCS) (1998-2015)**: Ton-, Film- und Videodokumente aus den Beständen des SLA, des Max-Frisch-Archivs und der Radio- und TV-Archive der SRG SSR idée suisse
• Miche, Paul (1886-1960)**
• Morand, Paul (1888-1976), Collection Paul Morand
• Moret, Michel (1944-2023), Collection Michel Moret*
• Moulin, Béatrice (1926-2006)**
• Moulin, Jean-Pierre (1922- ) : Fonds Jean-Pierre Moulin
• Niquille, Eléonore (1897-1957)**
• Pagnard, Rose-Marie (1943- )**
• Piantoni, Louis (1885-1958)*
• Pieczynska-Reichenbach, Emma (1854-1927)**
• Plan, Pierre-Paul (1870-1951)**
• Poulet, Georges (1902-1991)**
• Rambert, Eugène (1830-1886)**
• Réal, Grisélidis (1929-2005)**
• Reynold, Gonzague de (1880-1970)*
• Ritter, William (1867-1955)* Inventaire de la correspondance
• Rivaz, Alice (1901-1998)**
• Rolland, Romain (1886-1944)*
• Roulet, Daniel de (1944- )**
• Seippel, Paul (1858-1926)*
• Starobinski, Jean (1934-2019)**
• Thévoz, Michel (1936-)**
• Tièche, Édouard (1843-1883) **
• Voélin, Pierre (1949-)**
• Walzer, Pierre-Olivier (1915-2000)**
• Weideli, Walter (1927-2020)**
• Z’Graggen, Yvette (1920-2012)**

List of the French-language collections and archives

HelveticArchives provides a general description of all French-language collections and archives held by the ALS, including those whose inventories are available upon request or are currently being compiled.

• HelveticArchives