“Fais ce que dois…advienne que pourra!”: The Story of Wilfrid Beaulieu’s <i>Le Travailleur</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
U.S.-born, Québec-educated Wilfrid Beaulieu founded the newspaper, Le Travailleur , in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1931. He went on to publish the French-language newspaper for nearly five decades. When Le Travailleur ceased publication in 1978, the year before Beaulieu’s death, it was the last remaining Franco-American weekly newspaper in the United States. This article traces the evolution of this French-language newspaper over nearly half a century to shed light on the struggles of an ethnic press in the United States. To do so, it taps into Wilfrid Beaulieu’s records, donated by his widow to the Boston Public Library, to provide rare insight into a Franco-American newspaper business. While many French-language newspapers in the U.S.A. were short-lived, this article demonstrates how one French-language newspaper was able to survive for five decades in New England.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".