Site Contents 

Prefatory Material

• Video Introduction to the Book
• Table of Contents for the Book
• Introduction to the Book
• Video Introduction to the Dynamic Network Visualisations

Corpora and Appendices

Corpus of the Querelle des collèges

Alphabetical List of Actors in the Querelle

• Appendix 1: Constituting the Corpus, Database, and Network Visualisations of the Querelle
• Appendix 2: Graphs based on Google NGram Data
• Appendix 3: Print book only
• Appendix 4: ‘Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliothèque de l’hotel de l’Ecole royale militaire, du 1er décembre 1765 au 1er mars 1776 – poetes françois et traductions’
• Appendix 5: ‘Catalogue des livres de lecture à l’usage de Mrs. les élèves, qui se sont trouvé exister au dépôt de la bibliothèque le 10 mars 1776’

Figures

Figure 1: Print book only

Figure 2: Graph displaying annual frequency of use of the words belles-lettres and littérature (and variants), as a proportion of the total number of pages in the French-language Ngram corpus (2020), from 1750 to 1800. Data source: Google Books Ngram raw data.

Figure 3: Dynamic network visualisation of the Querelle des collèges, represented as a network of texts, where node size is a function of ties sent and received.

Figure 4: Dynamic network visualisation of the Querelle des collèges, represented as a network of people, where node size is a function of ties sent and received.

Figure 5: Static network visualisation of the Querelle des collèges, where nodes represent texts, and where node size is a function of ties sent and received.

Figure 6: Static network visualisation of the Querelle des collèges, where nodes represent people, and where node size is a function of ties sent.

Figure 7: Static network visualisation of the Querelle des collèges, where nodes represent people, and where node size is a function of ties sent and received.

Figure 8: Graph showing the annual number of interventions in the Querelle des collèges (1762-1789), including texts published between 1750 and 1761 that were later pulled in to this dispute.

Figure 9: Graph showing the nature of references made to Rousseau, shown as a percentage of all of the references he receives.

Figure 10: Print book only

Figure 11: Composition of the Ecole royale militaire library (15 March 1776)

Figure 12: Philologie collection of the Ecole royale militaire library (15 March 1776)

Figure 13: Graph displaying annual frequency of use of the words belles-lettres and littérature (and variants), as a proportion of the total number of pages in the French-language Ngram corpus (2020), from 1650 to 1900.