Colonizing the <i>Patrie</i>: An Experiment Gone Wrong in Old Regime France
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Abstract
This article reconstructs a colonial experiment conducted in a quiet corner of Old Regime France. In 1773 a nobleman named the marquis de Pérusse used the crown's money to settle fifteen hundred Acadian refugees—French-speaking, Catholic colonists expelled from the British province of Nova Scotia in 1755—on uncultivated lands near the town of Chatellerault in Poitou. After a few peaceful months, the project devolved into anarchy. Beset by threats and violence, most of the Acadians fled, eventually finding their way to Spanish Louisiana. Pérusse's colony, I argue, collapsed as the result of a conspiracy engineered by a group of disgruntled Acadians and Anne-Robert Turgot, Louis XVI's controller-general of finances. Re-creating this “cabal” while making a fresh assessment of Pérusse's vision of internal colonization, this article makes new connections between the politics of empire and political economy, revising in the process scholarly conceptions of France's late-eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Cet article reconstitue une expérience coloniale menée dans un lieu tranquille de l'Ancien Régime. En 1773, le marquis de Pérusse s'est servi des fonds de la Couronne pour implanter quinze cents Acadiens—colons francophones expulsés de la Nouvelle-Ecosse en 1755—sur des terrains incultes prés de la ville de Châtellerault en Poitou. Après quelques mois de paix, le projet est tombé dans l'anarchie. La plupart des Acadiens prirent la fuite, éventuellement gagnant la Louisiane espagnole. La colonie de Pérusse était victime d'une conspiration tramée par un groupe d'Acadiens mécontents et Anne-Robert Turgot, le premier contrôleur général des finances sous le règne de Louis XVI. En reconstituant l'histoire de cette « cabale » et la conception de la colonisation interne que le marquis de Pérusse a animé, cet article tresse de nouveaux liens entre l'impérialisme et l'économie politique, tout en révisant les conceptions des spécialistes du monde atlantique français à la fin du dix-huitième siècle.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| 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".