Bibliographic record
Abstract
Louise Dechêne did not live to see this book to completion, for she died on 1 July 2000 at the age of seventy-one.Three days before that, she was still dictating the broad outlines of the conclusion to her daughters, Geneviève and Julie.People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada is part of a broader study of relations between the Canadian colonists and the Ancien Régime administration.She had embarked on the project after completing her dissertation, submitted in 1973 and published the following year as Habitants et marchands de Montréal au XVIIe siècle. 1 In the course of the professorial career she was then, in her mid-forties, just beginning, Dechêne collected data, wrote index cards, and produced a sequence of drafts.In 1994, she published a book about one aspect of these relations: Le Partage des subsistances au Canada sous le Régime français (Power and Subsistence in its English translation) deals with administrative control over the grain trade under the French regime. 2 The next task was to complete another (in her mind, much more important) part of the analysis, concerning the military sphere.In retirement, this became the focus of her incessant labours.She had become, in her words, a "homebody," a euphemistic reference to being confined to her apartment by emphysema.And so the dining room became her point of departure for a series of archival journeys, back in time to the French regime, and this book was the result.If she had had a few more months, Dechêne would have further revised certain chapters, especially the last, which was left in draft form.She would have added material to the historiographic portion of the introduction and written a lengthier conclusion than the ones x Foreword to the French Edition
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.585 | 0.494 |
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".