Joseph Légaré et la satire graphique à Québec vers 1850. Une lecture comparée de la Ménagerie annexioniste et du Journal de Québec
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Abstract
Il existe peu d’exemples de satires visuelles produites au Bas-Canada dans la premiere moitie du xixe siecle qui nous soient parvenus. En 1987, le musee national des Beaux-Arts du Quebec1 fit l’acquisition d’une gravure sur bois datee d’environ 1850 et intitulee Menagerie annexioniste (fig. 1). Differents auteurs l’attribuent a William Augustus Leggo, Jr. (1830-1915), graveur, lithographe et editeur, qui illustra le Journal de Quebec2. Il s’agit d’un des rares exemples de caricature politique avec phylacteres produits au Canada-Est3 au milieu du xixe siecle. Fig. 1 : William Augustus Leggo [attrib.], Menagerie annexioniste, vers 1850, encre sur papier, gravure sur bois, 43 × 60,4 cm, don du Dr W. D. Lighthall, Quebec, musee McCord, inv. M5960. © Musee McCord, collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca/fr/collection/artefacts/M5960. Le sujet de cette gravure se refere a la campagne electorale qui eut lieu dans la cite et le district de Quebec en janvier 1850. Deux partis s’y affronterent : d’un cote, les annexionnistes, partisans de la fusion du Quebec avec les Etats-Unis, dont le candidat etait Joseph Legare (1795-1855), peintre, collectionneur et citoyen tres engage dans sa communaute4. De l’autre, les reformistes, qui presentaient le depute sortant, Jean Chabot (1806-1860), avocat et juge. Tout au long de cette campagne, les annexionnistes furent en butte aux attaques virulentes de Joseph-Edouard Cauchon (1816-1885), depute reformiste de Montmorency, eminence grise de ce parti dans la [...]
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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 | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.035 | 0.002 |
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".