"Nulle Terre Sans Seigneur?": Une Etude Comparative de la Presence Seigneuriale (France-Canada), XVIIe-XIXe Siecle
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Seigneuries in both France and New France were characterized by seigneurial absenteeism. This paper, by studying the seigneurs who resided on their fiefs in the Saint-Lawrence Valley from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, seeks to make a contribution to the history of the Canadian seigneurial regime. Although French historiography concerning seigneurial presence throughout the Ancien R�gime shows increased seigneurial absenteeism toward the end of the period, our work on the same question in the Saint-Lawrence Valley shows that seigneuries there became, once settlement was accomplished, more attractive places for seigneurs to live by the end of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when population and seigneurial dues increased. Nevertheless, Canadian seigneurs who lived on their seigneuries always constituted a minority: around 25 percent of all seigneurs over the three centuries of the seigneurial regime. This article also provides a general analysis of those seigneurs who took up residence among their peasants.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".