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Record W4414672242 · doi:10.18254/s207987840035310-0

Illustrating Travelogue: Crimea’s History in French Travel Writing of the First Quarter of the 19th Century

2025· article· en· W4414672242 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueIstoriya · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicTravel Writing and Literature
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPeninsulaPossession (linguistics)Quarter (Canadian coin)Travel writingKingdomCultural heritageNarrativeValue (mathematics)

Abstract

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This author of the article analyses the uses of the past of the Crimea and the images of archaeological monuments located in the Crimean Peninsula in French travelogues from the late 1800s and 1810s. This region features a unique concentration of cultural heritage sites of various chronological periods and cultures; its rich history traditionally attracted foreigner writers. By the early-nineteenth century, the travellers had in possession fundamental researches on the history of the Crimea and the North Black Sea Area written in French (or translated into French) by Charles de Guignes, Johann Thunmann, Vicenzo Formaleoni, and Stanislas Sestrencewicz de Bohusz. The travellers could also use the heritage of their forerunners: Charles de Peyssonnel, François de Tott, Charles de Ligne, Jean Reuilly, and others. Therefore, the travelogues under present study, created by Charles Pictet de Rochemont, Paul Guibal, Jacques-François Gamba, and “François Mersier” (Just-Jean-Étienne Roy), use history to play an auxiliary role of vignettes or decoration, which do not have particular value in itself, but is capable of animating the story, making the latter lively and romantic, arising the reader’s interest, and underlining specific and exotic image of the Crimea as the country featuring rich cultural heritage and located between East and West. The research has shown that the travelers sometimes used history for their narrow specific purposes: to substantiate economic projects, to aggrandize the works of one’s patron, or to “reveal” Russia’s aggressive plans for world’s politics.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.794
Threshold uncertainty score0.375

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.198
Teacher spread0.182 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it