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The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War

Graham Robb · 2007

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

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This is incredibly interesting because from our perspective, we have forgotten (if we ever knew) what went into the process of taking the thousands of villages and regions differing in all sorts of ways

on gwern.net · 13 Oct 2022

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.