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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D.

@josgagne.bsky.social
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Historien, Archiviste aux Archives nationales à Québec (BAnQ) #7YearsWar #18thcentury #FrenchColonial #NewFrance #NouvelleFrance #VastEarlyAmerica #WillHistoryForFood Opinions = miennes. novafrancia.wordpress.com Instagram: @josgagne

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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nouveau billet de blogue: curieusenouvellefrance.blogspot.com/2026/09/comm...
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Comment bien s’informer sur l’histoire de la Nouvelle-France sur Internet, ou : Comment arrêter de consommer d̶e̶ ̶l̶a̶ ̶c̶o̶c̶h̶o̶n̶n̶e̶r̶i̶e n’importe quoi sur les réseaux sociaux
Ahhhh, l’Internet. Lieu de rassemblement des grands esprits, terrain de bonne entente et de médiation pour s’informer de sujets complexes et...
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Am I the only one slowly but surely feeling exausted by... e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g? From politics to climate change, to AI to the dumbing down of society, to the internet being the jiggly-keys in the face of an infantilized society? My only solace-or rather, distraction-has been books. Older the better.
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Every time I call out people for using A.I., they clutch their pearls. I'm guessing they're plastic pearls.
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Serious question: why is AI-assisted web searching still a thing? In my experience, 95% of queries are total hallucinatory fabrications wasting my time as I sift for that one good result. Even "sources" don't contain any of the "quoted" information. It's as maddening as selling us square wheels.
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SNL: Robot Attack - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My slogan against a.i.: Computation for compilation, not generation.
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
And people ask me the point of being an eighteenth-century specialist 🙃
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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
For a sleepy summer #Caturday. Study of a sleeping cat, Jan Miel (attr.), mid-17th c. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Black chalk drawing of a sleeping, striped cat on ivory paper. Attributed to Jan Miel, mid-17th c.
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BAnQ @banq-officiel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🏛️ Parmi nos trésors : le magnifique « Della Magnifienza ed architettura de' Romani ». Publié en 1761, ce traité de Piranesi défend l'architecture romaine sur plus de 200 pages et 38 planches. Notre exemplaire a été restauré par le Centre de conservation de Québec entre 2019 et 2021. ✨
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Once again, I have the great pleasure of being on MonsterTalk with Blake and Karen :) 🎙️
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Cool. Via Rail got worse by shuffling their schedule. Just found out I can no longer travel from Québec City to Northern Ontario anymore because trains no longer align and so I'd have to spend ungodly amounts of money on a hotel in Toronto during FIFA. Goodbye vacation plans to visit home. *sigh*
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Unusual Train Car Rolling at Station
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
When you're a serious historian stumbling on a familiar name... #Starwars #ColonialHistory
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Linguistic flash of the day. I kept wondering why 18th century French sources keep spelling "Bastonnais" instead of "Bostonnais". Then it hit me: they're transcribing the Boston accent. #boston #NewFrance #NouvelleFrance
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Mon petit dernier dans le Journal de Québec! www.journaldemontreal.com/2026/03/22/l...
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[PHOTOS] L’église St. Matthew’s, bijou du quartier Saint-Jean-Baptiste
D’abord un lieu de rencontre pour les anglicans du quartier, l’église St. Matthew’s est maintenant un lieu de convivialité pour tous.
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
J'avais besoin d'exorciser mes pensées au sujet d'IA dans le monde universitaire. J'ai donc écrit un long billet de blogue à ce sujet. #AI #IA curieusenouvellefrance.blogspot.com/2026/03/plai...
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Plaidoyer contre l’utilisation de l’IA dans la recherche et la rédaction
(Cette image ne fut pas créée avec l'aide d'IA. -JG)   « I don’t participate in my own murder. » Je ne participe pas à mon propre meurtre. P...
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Pierre Poilievre has been MIA. The PM is travelling the world to meet allies. Conservative backbencher Jamil Jivani is telling MAGA media Canadians are having a "hissy fit" over threats to our sovereignty. Where's Pierre? He's working on his abs. Not serious this guy. Not serious.
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Je suis en train de fouiller pour identifier un particulier en Nouvelle-France. Je tombe sur ça: "Le 8 mai 1670 c’est la visite du coffre du chirurgien major Guillaume De LOL du navire le Saint-Pierre."
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I confirm.
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Mon petit dernier de l'année pour mon blogue: curieusenouvellefrance.blogspot.com/2025/12/dang...
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Danger: Glissade!
Image tirée de la légende montréalaise   Nips Daimon , par C.E. Bockus, publiée dans  Once a Week , vol. 6, 24 mai 1862, p. 602-208. Saviez-...
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
In today's digital age where copyists are no longer strapped to a table to handle ungodly amounts of physical type characters, the latinism op. cit. needs to die. There, I said it.
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
La Revue d'histoire de la Nouvelle-France m'a interviewé! #NouvelleFrance #Histoire www.rhnf.ca/s/stories/la...
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Histoire de l'Halloween au Québec: www.journaldequebec.com/2023/10/29/l... #Halloween #Québec #Canada #Quebec #Citrouilles #Écossais
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[EN IMAGES] L’Halloween au Québec racontée par les archives
Par Joseph Gagné, archiviste aux Archives nationales à Québec, BAnQ.
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
"Les manchettes d'aujourd'hui sont n'importe quoi. Dans le bon vieux temps, on parlait des vraies affaires" Les manchettes du bon vieux temps:
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Question for anyone into #Culloden ( @jennscott1485.bsky.social or otherwise): If I'm a visiting historian in Edinburg, what's a good recommendation on how to visit Culloden? Tour group? Bus? I want to visit the visitor center and not just rush.
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Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Q. Why does Marie Antoinette look a bit grim-faced? A. Because it's Bastille Day. Holiday in France today to commemorate the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 in the French Revolution.
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
In a moviescape poisoned by rampant cynicism, the new Superman is a breath of fresh air. The hopeful legacy of the Reeves' version is back!
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a man in a superman costume says true
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I can't get enough of his little dance.
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Making new business cards. Thank god for my last minute proofreading: apparently you CAN misspell Ph. D. (for the curious: I wrote Phd. D.)
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a man with a beard is making a funny face and the words i 'm dumb are above him
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
My Lilo & Stitch review Original L&S animated movie > L&S Remake > All the other Disney remakes. Now, can Disney finally get back to original programming?
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Quand je dis que l'i.a. nous abrutis, c'est pas des farces.
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
À quoi ressemblent mes étudiants quand je les oblige d'aller à la bibliothèque et de lâcher l'internet deux secondes en consultant "des antiquités"...
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I never tire of the dignified poetry of Welle's observations on mankind. "Go on singing. Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much." youtu.be/p67d9F9nW2Y?...
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F for Fake - Orson Welles, Chartres Cathedral
YouTube video by Peter Menard
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Help. I have the theme from Brazil stuck in my head. What does it mean. youtu.be/BEhPQBMxLfA?...
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The Office Theme from the Movie Brazil by Terry Gilliam
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Le Journal de Québec @journaldequebec.com · 11/05/2025
Jackie Smith de nouveau candidate à la mairie de Québec: «crinquée comme jamais» pour la mobilité et l’environnement (@vdesbiensjdq.bsky.social)
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Jackie Smith de nouveau candidate à la mairie de Québec: «crinquée comme jamais» pour la mobilité et l’environnement
La cheffe de Transition Québec, Jackie Smith, se lance de nouveau à la mairie de Québec avec en ligne de mire la mobilité et le logement.
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Timberdoodle, BUT SPOOKY @timberdoodlydoo.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
so basically all copyrights and patents in the US are void because whatever comes out of that AI will be infringing on anything and everything that has ever been sent
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I thought the goal of all my years spent mastering paleography was to teach students how to read old writing, not to help me read theirs... #gradingtime
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I am severely disappointed. I was having lunch with a paleontologist friend. She goes on and on about mosasaurs and plesiosaurs. I leaned in, eyes narrowed, and asked: "BUT have you found a magical liopleurodon?" "No." she replied most seriously. Feels like I wasted a kidney.
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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 09/05/2025
Because of Trump’s firings and gutting of federal agencies, the Congressionally-appointed U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission now lacks representation from NEA, NEH, IMLS, National Archives, and the LOC. Along with all the new cabinet agencies on the Commission. It’s about controlling 250.
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The thing about the 17th century being current, is that you never want the 17th century to be current. * cough * tariffs *cough*
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I don't know what disturbs me more: this t-shirt, or the fact that I get all the references from years of visiting Chicago 🤣
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Nerd confession: I can only remember Leo XIV's name by associating the name to Louis XIV + Leo the lion.
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
New Pope. Who dis?
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Whenever I travel in the U.S., I take unhealthy pleasure in convincing as many Americans as possible that because we use the metric system, Canada has 25 hours in a day; each Canadian hour has 50 minutes, thus accounting for the extra hour. Never. Been. Called. Out. It's goddamn hilarious.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Good morning, Bluesky.
The “inside you there are two wolves” meme, with one wolf labeled “I have the most amazing idea for a new project“ and the other wolf labeled “I need to take a vacation soon or I will literally explode.“
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 06/05/2025
And you may find yourself living in a thatched-roof hut And you may find yourself living in the Holy Roman Empire And you may find yourself negotiating with your lords And you may find yourself in a beautiful hall, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"
Talking Heads: Assemblies in Early Medieval Germany by Stuart Airlie. From the book Political Assemblies in the Earlier Middle Ages, edited by Barnwell and Mostert.
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Ahhh nuts. Talk about irony: I'm dipping into Montreal tomorrow, but had no clue the amazing @profaliceroberts.bsky.social will be giving a talk there the very moment I'm heading back home! If you're in Montreal, don't miss out!
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Sounds like an apt metaphor.
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
WUT
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Welp, my personal Boston Tea Party moment has arrived: my stash of American tea just ran out tonight because I haven't ordered more since the start of the boycott.
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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D. @josgagne.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Oy, Canada, don't forget to vote.
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