Lisez-vous le francophone ? Étude des librairies spécialisées en littératures francophones étrangères en France
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Since the 1990s, we have witnessed the emergence of a francophone identity, based on a shared language and a plurality of cultures. However, the francophone book industry still suffers from certain power relationships that place France far ahead compared to other French-speaking regions, sidelining several French-speaking literary productions. French publishing production floods both the French and foreign book markets, while foreign French-language publishing productions struggle to find a place on French bookseller shelves. This French hegemony is due to various historical, cultural, and industrial factors. Since the 2020s, governments and books professionals have shown some willingness to resolve this imbalance and allow all players in the French-speaking literary world to find their place. One example is the holding of the last Etats Généraux du livre en langue française in Tunis, in 2021, where many topics were discussed. One of them was the difficulties faced by foreign French-speaking authors to get a publication in France, or just to be read by French readers. This thesis aims to illustrate how the bookshops specializing in foreign French-speaking literature in Paris play a role in this rebalance. The bookstores Présence Africaine, Wallonie-Bruxelles, and Librairie du Québec offer privileged spaces for African, Belgian, and Quebec francophone literature, where publishers and authors from the French-speaking world are showcased through a variety of animations, setup and literary events. Foreign public authorities provide financial support for some of these bookshops, and all carry out complementary activities, particularly book distribution. They are hybrid structures that guarantee the circulation and promotion of French-speaking books on French territory.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
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 | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.016 | 0.002 |
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".