The direction de la Documentation française, known commercially as La Documentation française, is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 public administration charged with publishing general documentation on major newsworthy problems for French administrations and the French public. It also acts as a publisher for administrations and public bodies.

It is mostly known for publishing reports and studies of the French government.

It is one of the service directorates of the Prime Minister

Prime Minister of France

The Prime Minister of France in the Fifth Republic is the head of government and of the Council of Ministers of France. The head of state is the President of the French Republic...

 and operates under the authority of the Secretary-General of the Government.http://www.ladocfrancaise.gouv.fr/df/infos_DF/decret.shtml
It has published works such as Chez Vous en France by Geneviève Brame

Genevieve Brame

Geneviève Brame is a French author who writes in Paris and Normandy. She lives with her husband in the former residence of the Comtesse de Ségur....

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