La Floride française: Florida, France, and the Francophone World
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Abstract
Florida was a central concern of French governments between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries in their repeated attempts to secure a French presence in the New World.From the expeditions of the Huguenot Jean Ribault and Rene de Laudonniere that led to the creation of Fort Caroline in 1565, somewhere in the vicinity of present-day Jacksonville, to bold plans at the time of the Louisiana sale, in 1803, to turn Eastern Florida into a French dominion that could somehow compensate for the loss of Canada and Saint-Domingue, these endeavors pitted France directly against rival colonial powers.First England and Spain, which successfully colonized territory North and West of the Florida peninsula, then the United States, which competed for control of territory in North Florida and along the Mississippi.France also carried on trade and traffic in the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries between Florida and the neighboring French colonies in Louisiana and what is now Mobile, Alabama, as well as the Caribbean.As befits a publication based on the proceedings of a conference that marked the anniversary of the building of Fort Caroline, three contributions on the Ribault and Laudonniere expeditions open this JTAS Special Forum. 1 Although very different in their methodology and aims, all shed new light on an episode that too often remains clouded in myth.Frank Lestringant, author of the seminal Le Huguenot et le sauvage (1991), and long considered the doyen of French Florida scholars, opens the forum with a virtuoso analysis of an engraving from the Brevis Narratio of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues that depicts Timucua Native Americans prostrating themselves in 1565 before the column that had been erected three years earlier by Jean Ribault.Lestringant's careful reading of the interactions between image and text grapples
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 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".