The Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (CTHS) (Committee for Historic and Scientific Works) is a French research institution created by the Minister of Public Education François Guizot on 18 July 1834 for the purpose of 'leading research and making available unpublished documents, with funds voted from the state budget."
On 10 January 1835 a second committee was set up to undertake research and publication of documents in literature, philosophy, the arts and the sciences which are of significance to general history.
A Historic Works Bureau was established by Hippolyte Royer-Collard in the Science and Letters section of the Ministry to manage the committees.
On 5 March 1881, the committee assumed its current name[3] and was divided into two sections, one for history, archaeology and philology, and the second with the sciences, each having its own publication commission.
In 2005, an order from the Minister of Higher Education and Research brought the Committee within the remit of the École nationale des chartes, though its sectional structure was left unchanged.