DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5810596
title: S'écrire au XIXe siècle. Une correspondance familiale

description: <strong>S'écrire au XIX<sup>e</sup> siècle. Une correspondance familiale</strong> This dataset contains a digital edition of the correspondace of the Merzdorff-Duméril-Froissart family from the late XVIII<sup>th</sup> century up to approx. 1920, published on the website lettresfamiliales.ehess.fr. The data is available under the Etalab 2.0 open licence, with the exception of a small set of images from the National Museum of Natural History of France (see section "Credits and license"). If you re-use a document or the entire corpus, please credit its authors using the citation template in section "How to cite this dataset". <strong>About this dataset</strong><br> This dataset presents an updated and enriched version of the Merzdorff-Duméril-Froissart family's letters. This family has textile manufacturers, scientists from the French National Museum of Natural History and high ranking civil and military officials that elevate their social status from the late XVIII<sup>th</sup> century to the early XX<sup>th</sup> century. This correspondence was an instrument of social promotion, used by actors to increase their social status and keep memory of this elevation in the XIX<sup>th</sup> century French society. Carried out by a team of engineers from the Centre de Recherches Historiques (UMR 8558), the digital edition of the corpus resulted in the publication of more than 3,000 letters and approx. 2,000 additional documents, published on lettresfamiliales.ehess.fr. as a semantik wiki. The dataset contains an export of all the documents published on the wiki, grouped in four categories and available in <strong>data.zip</strong>.<br> As of january 2022: 3248 letters 1002 biographies 110 monographies 53 various family papers <strong>Indexes and metadata</strong><br> Each category is associated with a CSV file which provide the names and local paths of the documents for this category, along with a set of semantic metadata attached to every page of the corpus. The following table provide details about the metadata you can find in the indexes. Metadata English translation Description Category Date de rédaction Writing date The date where this letter was written, as inscribed on the original document. Letters Signataire Signatory The author of the letter. Letters Destinataire Recipient Recipient of the letter. Letters Lieux d'expédition et de réception Place of dispatch and receipt From where the letter was sent, and where it was received. Letters Sous-titre Subtitle The letter subtitle. Letters Titre Title The document / wiki page title. All Mentionne Mentions A person cited or mentioned, even indirectly. All A few other information are given with each document : displaytitle: the title displayed on the wiki can be different from the actual page name. exists: 1 if the page is not deleted fullurl: the actual URL of the document on lettresfamiliales.ehess.fr namespace: the page namespace. Should be always 0. path: the local path to the files of this document. <strong>Texts and images</strong> Documents are stored in separate folders. Letters are grouped by years and decade, the other categories by alphabetical order. Images attached to documents are stored in the same folder. All documents are available in four formats: HTML as rendered from the wiki, with internal hyperlinks converted to local links. PDF raw text containing only the subtitle and trancription for letters, and the main content for the other pages. XML-TEI <strong>How to cite this dataset</strong><br> To reference the entire dataset, use the citation generated by the repository. To cite a particular document within the dataset you can use this template:<br> "{document Title}, {document subtitle if any}". In "S’écrire au XIX<sup>ème</sup> siècle. Une correspondance familiale.". Danièle Poublan. École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Centre de Recherches Historiques. {Date}, {Dataset Version}, {DOI}. <br> <strong>Credits and license</strong><br> The fac-simile displayed in the documents listed below come from original documents stored at the National Museum of Natural History of France. All rights reserved. All texts and other images were created by Cécile Dauphin and Danièle Poublan and are published under Open License 2.0 (see LICENSE.txt).<br> You are therefore free to copy, reuse, modify or republish the data, provided you credit the authors. Images from the National Museum of Natural History of France: - Mardi 6 mai 1856 (Ms 2600, n°1044) ;<br> - Lundi 3 septembre 1860 (Ms 2739, n°179) ;<br> - Samedi 7 mai 1853 (Ms 2600, n°1048) ;<br> - Jeudi 6 mai 1852 (Ms 2745, n°595) ;<br> - Mercredi 23 avril 1828 (Ms 1974, n°588) ;<br> - Dimanche 8 juillet 1860 (Ms 2754, n°78) ;<br> - Samedi 20 août 1853 (Ms 2745, n°596) ;<br> - Fin août ou début septembre 1844 (Ms 2745, n°591) ;<br> - Lundi 9 mai 1842 (Ms 2745, n°594) ;<br> - Dimanche 23 octobre 1814 (Ms 2716-1, pièces 17 et 18) ;<br> - Vendredi 14 mars 1800, 27 ventôse an VIII (Ms 1975 (1), n°794) ;<br> - Vendredi 5 novembre 1847 (Ms 2745, n°593) ;<br> - Dimanche 8 janvier 1854 (Ms 2600, n°1050) ;<br> - Jeudi 3 janvier 1833 (Ms 1965, n°241) ;<br> - 1816 - Rapport à l’Académie, au nom de la section, sur André Marie Constant Duméril (Ms 2716-1, pièce 5) ;<br> - Lundi 9 avril 1855 (Ms 2600, n°1051) ;<br> - Fin août 1860 (Ms 2739, n°178) ;<br> - Lundi 24 juillet 1843 (Ms 2745, n°590) ;<br> - Dimanche 18 mai 1856 (Ms 2600, n°1045) ;<br> - 1853 (Ms 2745, n°597) ;<br> - Mardi 14 décembre 1845 (Ms 2745, n°592) ;<br> - Mercredi 29 avril 1812 (Ms 2528, n°56) ;<br> - Lundi 4 Juin 1860 (B (Ms 2739, n°177) ) ;<br> - 1852 – Faire-part de décès d’Alphonsine Delaroche, épouse d’André Marie Constant Duméril (Ms 2600, folio°1049) ;<br> - Samedi 6 décembre 1834 (Ms 2600, pièce 1047) ;<br> - Samedi 7 février 1835 (Ms 1986, n°478) ;<br> - Jeudi 27 octobre 1825 (Ms 1997, n°132) ;<br> - Dimanche 14 septembre 1834 (Ms 2600, pièce 1046) ;<br> - Mercredi 24 novembre 1832 (Ms 638, n°187) ;