France Archives of Overseas Territories IRELs English Menu – Search Acadian BMDs etc Ulysse Image Database – Brief description of the collections kept: archives from, on the one hand, ministries responsible for the XVIIth and XXth Centuries of the French colonial empire, and on the other hand from local administrations of former colonies and Algeria. It also describes additional resources (private archives, photographs, maps and plans, library, microfilmed archives).