| Summary: | The Menie Grégoire archive (66J) is now kept in the Indre-et-Loire Departmental Archives. Between 1967 and 1981, the journalist and radio host Menie Grégoire built up a space for speaking and listening on the airwaves of RTL, but also in the radio’s mailbox, where testimonies from women, and sometimes men, arrived by the dozen. More than 80,000 letters and 2,000 audio tapes are preserved and accessible to the public. In the field of social history and gender studies, these archives now constitute unprecedented traces of the daily language of women who expressed themselves at a singular period when women’s voices were being freed on subjects such as contraception, sexuality, exploitation through domestic and reproductive work, retirement, child rearing, etc. These archives also provide knowledge on the information, communication and mobilisation mechanisms at work in a given society (epistolary correspondence and radio testimonies). For this article, we wanted to give the floor to the archivists of the Departmental Archives who preserve this collection in order to trace the thread and traces of this archive history.
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