À la poursuite de Céline à New York
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Abstract
Louis-Ferdinand Céline n’a cessé de multiplier les allers-retours entre Paris et New York, jusqu’à la veille de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Le voyage commence dès 1925. Sa première expérience avec la Société des Nations (ancêtre de l’ONU), en tant que “responsable des échanges de médecins spécialistes”, prouve également son bon niveau en anglais. C'est sous l'égide de l’organisation internationale que le Docteur Louis Destouches se voit confier la direction d'une délégation de médecins sud-américains, qui l'amène à traverser toute l'Amérique de Nord. Ce périple de quatre mois le conduit de Cuba à la Louisiane, de New York à Montréal, esquissant déjà la trajectoire de l’odyssée célinienne. Après la publication de son roman phare, Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932), l'auteur revient à trois reprises sur le continent nord-américain. Une destination qui va étrangement se resserrer autour de New York, à partir de 1937. Sous la couverture officielle d’un écrivain talentueux, notre étude permet de mieux comprendre quelles furent ses intentions réelles. Au fil du temps, ses voyages promotionnels vont se muer en voyages politiques, où partout sur son passage se croisent les chefs de fil de mouvements nationalistes. Cet itinéraire met en lumière l’ambition et la sincérité de son engagement dans l’idéologie du IIIème Reich. Notre enquête explore les convictions profondes de l’écrivain, qui vont le conduire à organiser une partie de la propagande nazie à l’échelle internationale, notamment à travers la publication et la diffusion de pamphlets à partir de 1937. Louis-Ferdinand Céline continued to travel back and forth between Paris and New York until the eve of the Second World War. The journey began in 1925. His first experience with the League of Nations (the forerunner of the UN), as “responsible for the exchange of specialist doctors”, also proved his good level of English. It was under the aegis of the international organization that Doctor Louis Destouches was entrusted with the leadership of a delegation of South American doctors, which led him to cross the whole of North America. This four-month journey took him from Cuba to Louisiana, from New York to Montreal, already outlining the trajectory of Céline’s odyssey. After the publication of his flagship novel, Journey to the End of the Night (1932), the author returned to the North American continent three times. A destination that would strangely narrow around New York, from 1937. Under the official cover of a talented writer, our study allows us to better understand what his real intentions were. Over time, his promotional trips would turn into political trips, where everywhere he went, the leaders of nationalist movements would cross paths. This itinerary highlights the ambition and sincerity of his commitment to the ideology of the Third Reich. Our investigation explores the writer's deep convictions, which would lead him to organize part of the Nazi propaganda on an international scale, notably through the publication and distribution of pamphlets from 1937.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.154 | 0.025 |
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".