Observed arrival · 2026-09-19
SILLAGE: The Name Beneath the Name
A French digital-humanities atelier tracing how colonial texts, Indigenous place-names, transcription, and later laws continue to shape the map of francophone North America.
- For
- Students and readers of colonial North American texts
- Worth noticing
- The 1545 Cartier folio preserves the long s, expands tilde-marked nasals in the apparatus, and keeps u/v distinctions unregularized.
Field notes
SILLAGE organizes its material around four river dossiers, each pairing an early source with later traces such as maps, poems, workers’ journals, and laws. Its editing workflow preserves features of the source text—including the long s and tilde-marked nasals—while recording place names and reading decisions as TEI P5 annotations. The homepage identifies Gallica, Internet Archive, and the Library of Congress as the repositories supplying facsimiles, and links onward to the project’s method and research materials.
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