A project to build a comprehensive database of the Bank of France's published accounts covering its entire history was launched in 2001 with the support of the Bank'sMission Historique. This article introduces its main outcome: a dataset based on the weekly balance sheets – the so-calledsituations hebdomadaires– covering more than a century and a half of history from 1840 to 1998. After a brief outline of the historical evolution of the Bank's legal status and a description of the publication outlets for the data, the article pays special attention to the issues of transparency and accountability. For that purpose, it reconstructs on the basis of archival records the debate over the disclosure of the Bank's figures (what to publish, how frequently) that took place, both within the Bank and between the Bank and the government, at various turning points in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Finally, the article explains how the presentation of thesituationschanged over time, paying special attention to the impact of World Wars I and II. The full database with metadata information is attached to the electronic version of this article and downloadable as an Excel file from theFHRwebsite, together with an extensive review of the literature on the history of the Bank of France.

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法国银行资产负债表数据库，1840-1998：158 年中央银行业务简介

2001 年在法国银行的支持下启动了一个项目，该项目旨在建立一个涵盖法国银行整个历史的已公布账户的综合数据库。历史使命. 本文介绍其主要成果：基于每周资产负债表的数据集——所谓的情况周刊——涵盖了从 1840 年到 1998 年超过一个半世纪的历史。在简要概述了世行法律地位的历史演变和对数据发布渠道的描述之后，本文特别关注了透明度问题和问责制。为此，它在档案记录的基础上重建了关于在银行内部以及银行与政府之间在不同的转折点披露银行数据（发布什么，多久发布一次）的争论。十九世纪和二十世纪。最后，文章解释了如何呈现情况随着时间的推移而发生变化，特别注意第一次世界大战和第二次世界大战的影响。包含元数据信息的完整数据库附在本文的电子版中，可从胎心率网站，以及对法国银行历史文献的广泛回顾。