Official travels of foreign personalities to France (1944-2008)

The official travel department, under the authority of the Directorate-General of the National Police, takes care of security measures around foreign personalities during their official trips or private stays. Archive records produced in connection with these missions are kept in the National Archives. The various detailed inventories made it possible to establish a structured and detailed chronological list of official trips of foreign personalities between 1944 and 2008. This list of more than 560 trips to France, which does not claim completeness, concerns only those in office. Only the so-called “official” travel has been retained – as far as possible. They are therefore not concerned with punctual crossings in France (country of transit to the American continent or Great Britain) or stays on a private basis. Some foreign leaders (e.g. Léopold Sédar Senghor) stayed in France for several months, alternating private trips and official visits: in these cases, there is only one “official trip” entry per year. The dataset made available consists of the following information: * Country of origin of the individual; * Country code; * Status: head of State, Head of Government, Sovereign and Religious Head; * Individual; * Initial content: record in the archive inventory; * Year of start of official journey; * Start date of official travel; * The end date of official travel; * URL of the record of the National Archives; * File rating. Map access is offered here, based on the column _country code._ The archives of the Official Travel Service available at the National Archives generally consist of the following documents: detailed travel schedule (sometimes printed brochure), order of official cars, table plan, safety notes and correspondence, press clippings. The data will be updated with subsequent archive payments from the Official Travel Service. Last updated on 20/04/2023: addition of 22 official trips between 2004 and 2008 (archive payment 20220621)受国家警察总局（Directorate-General of the National Police）管辖的官方出行部门，负责外国政要在官方出访或私人停留期间的安全保障工作。与上述勤务相关的档案记录均留存于国家档案馆（National Archives）。通过各类详细的档案清单，现已编制得到一份结构化、细粒度的时间序列清单，涵盖1944年至2008年间外国政要的官方出访行程。 该列表包含560余趟赴法行程，未宣称完全覆盖所有记录，且仅收录在职外国政要的出访内容。本数据集尽可能仅收录标准意义上的"官方"出行记录，因此不包含以法国为中转前往美洲大陆或大不列颠的临时过境行程，以及私人停留行程。部分外国领导人（例如列奥波尔德·塞达·桑戈尔 Léopold Sédar Senghor）曾在法国停留数月，期间交替开展私人出行与官方访问：此类情形下，每年仅记录一条"官方出访"条目。 本次公开的数据集包含以下字段信息： * 外国政要所属国家； * 国家代码； * 身份类别：国家元首、政府首脑、君主及宗教领袖； * 外国政要姓名； * 初始内容：档案清单中的原始记录条目； * 官方行程起始年份； * 官方行程起始日期； * 官方行程结束日期； * 国家档案馆档案记录URL； * 档案评级。 本数据集支持基于国家代码字段的地图可视化访问。留存于国家档案馆的官方出行服务档案，通常包含以下材料：详细行程表（部分为印刷版小册子）、官方用车调度令、座次安排图、安全提示函件及新闻剪报。 官方出行服务部门后续移交的档案批次将持续用于更新本数据集。本数据集最后更新于2023年4月20日，新增2004年至2008年间的22条官方出访记录（档案批次编号：20220621）