Simeon-Prosper Hardy: Mes Loisirs, ou Journal d'evenemens tels qu'ils parviennent a ma connoissance (1753-1789). Volume I (1753-1770)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
To paraphrase Alfred Kazin, the bookseller Siméon-Prosper Hardy was a walker in his city, Paris, during the last third of the eighteenth century. Like Kazin, he watched, he listened, and he read, and thankfully for historians, he wrote it all down in eight manuscript volumes. He reported the quotidian, such as a frost, a hunting accident, or a decline in the price of bread, but he also took account of the rising tensions between the king and the parlements. For generations, scholars concerned with riot, fashion, and confession have turned to published portions of Hardy’s journal or made a pilgrimage to the Bibliothèque Nationale to examine it first-hand. This attention inevitably took its toll on the condition of the manuscript. So the appearance of the initial volume of Hardy’s journal in print, the first of a projected dozen that will encompass Hardy’s entire chronicle, is a welcome event. Moreover, this plan will be especially satisfying if the whole set matches the elegance and clarity of presentation of the first volume.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.119 | 0.020 |
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".