Louis Bertrand à l'Isle-Verte (1811-1871) : régime foncier et exploitation des ressources
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Abstract
RÉSUMÉ: Originaire de la ville de Québec, Louis Bertrand s'installe à L'Isle-Verte en 1811 puis \ndevient un notable parmi les plus en vue de la région. Les monographies d'histoire locale \nont permis de mettre en relief le rôle de cet individu dans l'histoire socio-économique de la \nrégion du Bas-Saint-Laurent. En effet, seigneur, député, maire, lieutenant-colonel de milice, \nmarchand de bois, fondateur de la Société d'agriculture du comté de Rimouski sont les \nprincipales désignations qui lui furent reconnues. Mais au-delà de ces fonctions \nadministratives et institutionnelles remplies par Louis Bertrand, l'impact de son action sur \nl'occupation du territoire et l'exploitation des ressources demeure méconnu. Ce \nquestionnement interroge plus largement le rôle fondamental joué par les élites locales en \némergence dans les processus de développement de certaines régions périphériques \nquébécoises au 1ge siècle et la manière dont ces individus ont évolué dans un \nenvironnement en mutation marqué par l'abolition du régime seigneurial, la conquête du \nsol, l'essor du capitalisme et de l'industrialisation. \nL'étude des actes notariés tels que les transactions foncières, les concessions, les \nventes, les échanges ou les donations de fiefs et de terres, permet de mieux comprendre les \nstratégies d'accumulation et de gestion des ressources déployées par Louis Bertrand et de \ncontribuer à améliorer notre connaissance des dynamiques historiques régionales. Trois \naxes d'analyse se dégagent de cette lecture examinant l'appropriation du territoire et du \npouvoir par cette nouvelle élite économique : 1) l'occasion d'acquérir de grandes \nsuperficies foncières et les droits inhérents dans le cadre du régime seigneurial; \n2) l'importance du volume des transactions foncières comme pierre d'assise de la \nconstruction du patrimoine; 3) la portée de certaines acquisitions stratégiques liées à \nl'exploitation des ressources. Ce mémoire propose de démontrer comment la trajectoire de \nLouis Bertrand est marquée chronologiquement par différents cycles de transactions \nfoncières jusqu'à l'établissement de sa succession. -- ABSTRACT: Native from Quebec City, Louis Bertrand settled at L'Isle-Verte in 1811 where he \nbecame one of the notable citizens of the area. Local history monographs demonstrate the \nimportance of this character in the social economic history of the Bas-Saint-Laurent region. \nHe was a « seigneur », a member of the parliament, a mayor, a lieutenant-colonel in the \nmilitia, a lumber dealer and the founder and president of Rimouski county's Agricultural \nSociety. But beyond his administrative and institutional fonctions, the impact of Bertrand's \nactions on the settlement and on the exploitation of natural ressources is mostly \nunrecognized. This brings about a larger question pertaining to the emerging local elite's \nrole in the development of the Province's outlying regions during the 191h century. \nQuestions are also raised about how those people lived during this period of a changing \nsociety marked by the abolition of the seigneurial system, the expansion of capitalism and \nthe industrialization. \nThe analysis of deeds such as concessions, sales, exchanges or donations of fiefs and \nlands, allows for a better understanding of Louis Bertrand's strategies for accumulation and \nmanagement. It also contribute to the knowledge of regional historie specificities. The \nstudy of this new economic elite's appropriation of power and land brings up three \nfindings: the opportunity for large-scale acquisition of land rights coming inside the \nseigneurial system; the significance of a large number of deeds as comerstone for the \ninheritance; and finally the extent of certain particular strategie acquisitions related to \nressources exploitation. This thesis aims to demonstrate how Louis Bertrand's life story is \nchronologically paced by diffrent cycles of deeds until the organization of his succession.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.019 | 0.001 |
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.
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