Comité d'agriculture et des arts

Several décades after the fall of Robespierre, the Convention nationale issued a decree reorganizing its committees on 7 fructidor II. The collections in the Hub have at least two sources for this decree, one in the Newberry French Revolution Collection which was printed by the order of the Convention, and the other reproduced in the Baudouin collection of Revolutionary Laws. One of the 16 committees, with a small but significant charge...

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Club de la propagande

 Over three decades ago, while working with the splendid French Revolution Collection (FRC) at the Newberry Library in Chicago, I came across one of those entertaining little finds that stick in your memory and makes working in great research library so worthwhile.  Came across is not quite right, since the librarians at the Newberry had begun working on a database catalog of the collection, starting with the anonymous...

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Topic Models in the Intertextual Hub

ARTFL’s NEH funded Intertextual Bridges project is an effort to facilitate distant and close readings across a large heterogeneous set of collections of 18th century French documents. These range from Revolutionary pamphlets and newspapers to the great works of Enlightenment in the original French as well as translations of many English texts. This post and associated slide show (see below), will provide an overview of the many ways...

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Reading the Bibliothèque de l'homme public in the Hub

The Intertextual Hub (https://intertextual-hub.org/) is an NEH funded project to develop a reading environment that aims to situate specific documents in their broader context of intertextual relations, whether in the form of direct or indirect borrowings, shared topics with other texts or parts of texts, or other kinds of lexical similarity. Relationships discovered by text mining algorithms among texts in large, heterogeneous collections...

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Tracing Revolutionary Discourses

In our previous blog post in this series, Modeling Revolutionary Discourse, we outlined the integration of various analytic services and entry points to one of the collections -- the French Revolutionary Collection (FRC) -- we are using as part of ARTFL’s NEH funded Intertextual Bridges project.  This provided three distinct ways to approach the richness of the Newberry Library collection, through PhiloLogic4 search...

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