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French-PD-Newspapers

file_id stringlengths 10 13	ocr stringclasses 53 values	title stringlengths 5 583	date stringlengths 4 10	author stringlengths 4 273	page_count int64 1 8.33k	word_count int64 0 3M	character_count int64 0 21.4M	complete_text stringlengths 0 21.4M
bpt6k4105438d	76	Le Franc-tireur : organe des Mouvements unis de résistance : mensuel malgré la Gestapo et la police de Vichy : édition de Paris	1945-02-20	Mouvement de libération nationale (France)	10	6,813	40,384	Franc-Tireur VA Le Quotidien de Paris A L'A VANT-GARDE Ofi £A RÉPVBLJQUE A para dandestmement depuis 1941 5' ANNEE. N° 198. * "100, rue RéaUlnur-r. MARDI 20 FEVRIER 1945 Téléph. G ut. 80-60 Tur. 54-40 * PRIX : 1 Fr. 50. ~. On ne saurait nier %Que les Etats-Unis font JJae leur mieux pour se rapprocher du lap...
bpt6k585521x	99	Le Matin : derniers télégrammes de la nuit	1937-02-24	None	34	46,198	290,169	"\nESpETE 'Il ne reste plus qu'à ta voter \nElle sera votée La commission du suffrage universel a (...TRUNCATED)
bpt6k9748315k	99	L'Apiculteur : bulletin de la Société centrale d'apiculture	1858-10	Société centrale d'apiculture (France)	1,060	145,154	868,228	"\n \n \n \n \nF \nPrix de Inboiinemcnt; 6 fr. ibasait. \nL'APICULTEUI # (DIT 2g â. l \nDES \nCULTI(...TRUNCATED)
bpt6k7569199j	99	Le XIXe siècle : journal quotidien politique et littéraire	1912-04-06	None	16	23,393	140,824	"\nTRIBUNE LIBRE \n1 k\nLES PRÉCURSEURS \n..«--t ■■■■\" ■ \nUne loi nouvelle sur l'habit(...TRUNCATED)
bpt6k927325r	88	Bulletin paroissial mensuel de Pierry et Moussy	1914-02	None	16	2,158	12,834	"\n6* Année, — N° 59 \nFÉVRIER 1914 \n* \nBULLETIN PAROISSIAL ffiswrr ■ y \nMENSUEL \nh », (...TRUNCATED)
bpt6k6312752z	99	Cours authentique	1876-02-12	Bourse de Paris	16	11,980	54,887	"\n~s. < i A 'rr-oAtt——~-~———-. --, 1 S ..-----j\| A TERME. I Derniers cottrt I IDttrét(...TRUNCATED)
bpt6k6104070b	94	L'Art à l'école : bulletin mensuel de la Société nationale de l'Art à l'école	1910-02	Société française de l'art à l'école	28	6,199	39,418	"\n)* Année. \nN* 16. \nFévrier 1910. \nBULLETIN DE LA SOCIÉTÉ NATIONALE \nNote M6K Trésoriers (...TRUNCATED)
bpt6k63611467	100	L'Abeille impériale : messager des familles : revue du grand monde, des modes et de l'industrie	1860-09-15	None	76	19,076	115,920	"\nLABEILLE IMPÉRIALE JOURNAL DE LA COUR NOUVELLES DE LA COUR DE FRANCE ET DES COURS ETRANGERES LIT(...TRUNCATED)
bpt6k6294236q	99	Bulletin de la cote	1919-06-05	Compagnie des agents de change (France)	28	21,989	119,669	"\n§î\| si g f® g\|\| § f i! \nde la DÉSIGNATION DBS VALEURS COMPTANT efi j J S iS M: FONDS D'ÉTA(...TRUNCATED)
bpt6k2198166	71	La Croix	1902-09-12	Groupe Bayard	16	25,388	157,159	"\nNous vous reconnaissons comme notre Souverain Seigneur et Maître et comme Chef suprême de la Pa(...TRUNCATED)

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🇫🇷 French Public Domain Newspapers 🇫🇷

French-Public Domain-Newspapers or French-PD-Newpapers is a large collection aiming to agregate all the French newspapers and periodicals in the public domain.

The collection has been originally compiled by Pierre-Carl Langlais, on the basis of a large corpus curated by Benoît de Courson, Benjamin Azoulay for Gallicagram and in cooperation with OpenLLMFrance. Gallicagram is leading cultural analytics project giving access to word and ngram search on very large cultural heritage datasets in French and other languages.

Content

As of January 2024, the collection contains nearly three million unique newspaper and periodical editions (69,763,525,347 words) from the French National Library (Gallica). Each parquet file has the full text of a few thousand selected at random and, when available, a few core metadatas (Gallica id, title, author, word counts…). The metadata can be easily expanded thanks to the BNF API.

This initial agregation was made possible thanks to the open data program of the French National Library and the consolidation of public domain status for cultural heritage works in the EU with the 2019 Copyright Directive (art. 14)

The composition of the dataset adheres to the French criteria for public domain of collective works (any publication older than 70 years ago) and individual works (any publication with an author dead for more than 70 years). In agreement with the shorter term rules, the dataset is in the public domain everywhere.

Uses

The primary use of the collection is for cultural analytics project on a wide scale.

The collection also aims to expand the availability of open works for the training of Large Language Models. The text can be used for model training and republished without restriction for reproducibility purposes.

License

The entire collection is in the public domain everywhere. This means that the patrimonial rights of each individual or collective rightholders have expired.

The French National Library claims additional rights in its terms of use and restrict commercial use: "La réutilisation commerciale de ces contenus est payante et fait l'objet d'une licence. Est entendue par réutilisation commerciale la revente de contenus sous forme de produits élaborés ou de fourniture de service ou toute autre réutilisation des contenus générant directement des revenus."

There has been a debate for years in Europe over the definition of public domain and the possibility to restrict its use. Since 2019, the EU Copyright Directive state that "Member States shall provide that, when the term of protection of a work of visual art has expired, any material resulting from an act of reproduction of that work is not subject to copyright or related rights, unless the material resulting from that act of reproduction is original in the sense that it is the author's own intellectual creation."(art. 14)

Future developments

This dataset is not a one time work but will continue to evolve significantly on two directions:

Correction of computer generated errors in the text. All the texts have been transcribed automatically through the use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The original files have been digitized over a long time period (since the mid-2000s) and some documents should be. Future versions will strive either to re-OCRize the original text or use experimental LLM models for partial OCR correction.
Enhancement of the structure/editorial presentation of the original text. Some parts of the original documents are likely unwanted for large scale analysis or model training (header, page count…). Additionally, some advanced document structures like tables or multi-column layout are unlikely to be well formatted. Major enhancements could be experted through applying new SOTA layout recognition models (like COLAF) on the original PDF files.
Expansion of the collection to other cultural heritage holdings, especially coming from Hathi Trust, Internet Archive and Google Books.

Acknowledgements

The corpus was stored and processed with the generous support of Scaleway. It was built up with the support and concerted efforts of the state start-up LANGU:IA (start-up d’Etat), supported by the French Ministry of Culture and DINUM, as part of the prefiguration of the service offering of the Alliance for Language technologies EDIC (ALT-EDIC).

Corpus collection has been largely facilitated thanks to the open science LLM community insights and cooperation (Occiglot, Eleuther AI, Allen AI).