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Representing France: Dragomans and Negotiating Frenchness in the Eastern Mediterranean

2025· article· en· W7104641545 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueFrench Colonial History · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIslamic Studies and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMediterranean climateCarcinologyNova scotiaWestern europe

Abstract

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Abstract Cet article examine la façon dont l’État français a activement travaillé à l’élaboration de sa représentation dans les interactions quotidiennes dans le monde ottoman du XVIIIe siècle. Les principaux personnages étaient les drogmans : agents formés par l’État depuis l'enfance pour servir d'interprètes. Cette étude affirme que la formation et la régulation des drogmans représentent un siècle de négociations de la part de l’État français pour déterminer qui sera le visage de la France et de ses intérêts à l’étranger. Suite à l'arrestation d'un drogman à Alexandrie dans les années 1760 et le déni de son identité par les autorités ottomanes, la France a reconnu la nécessité de clarifier les limites de ce groupe. Ce faisant, les objectifs initiaux de loyauté et de fiabilité sont devenus secondaires par rapport à la nationalité, reléguant les drogmans non français à un statut inférieur permanent, quels que soient leurs états de service.

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Teacher imitation

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)0.001
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: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.758
Threshold uncertainty score0.989

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.278
Teacher spread0.259 · 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