French Official Corporate bodies of the Ancient Regime (COFAR) and Religious Corporate bodies (CORELI): two operations in creating authority records in order to standardise the entries of bibliographic records in Bibliothèque nationale de France retrospective conversion [English version presented at the International Conference] = Enti ufficiali francesi dell’Ancient Régime (COFAR) ed enti religiosi (CORELI): due attività di creazione di record d’autorità per standardizzare gli accessi alle registrazioni bibliografiche nella conversione retrospettiva della BNF [Versione italiana presentata alla Conferenza internazionale]

During the retrospective conversion of its printed and cards catalogues, the Bibliothèque nationale de France was confronted with the existence of old bibliographic records without corporate body headings, because this concept was unknown when the books were catalogued. Later we were able to create headings allowing us to index corporate bodies during the preparatory work to the retroconversion. However, for lack of time, we could not plan the creation of corresponding authority records. This is why, the BnF later launched two research programs aimed at creating authority records for specific fields, specific but very important for the access to the national bibliographic heritage. These two programs were respectively named COFAR and CORELI.