Gauquelin 1955

This page deals with data listed in Michel Gauquelin's book "Les hommes et les astres", published in 1955.
Gauquelin announces 5 756 persons (p 244 of the book).
Most data of the 1955 book (but not all) were included in the booklets of serie A, published in 1970-71 by the LERRCP.
Integration of these groups was done from scan and OCR of the original paper book.

A previous restoration attempt (without OCR) is documented here and here.

Original groups

Here are the groups, listed in the order they appear in the book.
  • NG5 : Number of records found by g5 program ; may be different from the number announced by Gauquelin (appearing in the title).
  • Title : Original name by Gauquelin.
LERRCP
booklet		 Download result on
opengauquelin.org		 NG5 TitleComments
A2 01-576-physicians 575 576 membres associés
et correspondants
de l'académie de médecine 		Other restoration done by newalchemypress.com
7 persons are not present LERRCP A2 booklet.
A2 02-508-physicians 508 508 autres médecins notables 19 persons are not present LERRCP A2 booklet.
A1 03-570-sportsmen 568 570 sportifs 1 person is not present in LERRCP A1 booklet.
Ertel and Nienhuys say that Gauquelin removed 1 record.
=> N = 567 ?
Other restoration done by newalchemypress.com
A3 04-676-military 677 676 militaires 4 persons are not present LERRCP A3 booklet.
A4 05-906-painters 905 906 peintres 1 person is not present LERRCP A4 booklet.
None 06-361-minor-painters 362 361 peintres mineurs Previously not available in electronic format.
Brings 359 new persons in the database.
A5 07-500-actors 500 500 acteurs 2 persons are not present LERRCP A5 booklet.
A5 08-494-deputies 494 494 députés 313 persons are not present LERRCP A5 booklet.
A2 09-349-scientists 347
279		 349 membres, associés
et correspondants
de l'académie des sciences 		The list scanned on the book contains 279 records.
Gauquelin announces 349 because 68 records come from the list "576 membres associés et correspondants de l'académie de médecine".
This group thus contains 279 + 68 = 347 persons.
313 persons are not present LERRCP A2 booklet.
None 10-884-priests 882 884 prêtres Previously not available in electronic format.
Brings 881 new persons in the database.

Gauquelin 1955 unique id

Permits to identify a person published in 1955 book in g5 database.
Noted G55ID in output csv files.
G55 id is built concatenating:
  • The number of its 1955 group
  • The rank of this record within this group
For example, the G55 id of Paul Albert, the 4th record of group 01-576-physicians is 01-4.

Gauquelin 1955 unique id is one of the partial ids defined in g5 database. See the complete list of partial ids.

Restoration steps

For each group of the original book, the raw file is formatted and converted to a temporary csv file: 
php run-g5.php gauq g55 raw2tmp 03-570-sportsmen
The file is then matched to the persons already stored in database. This adds column GQID to the csv file. Constant MATCH_LERRCP of class G55 is used to fix the ambiguous cases. 
php run-g5.php gauq g55 gqid update 03-570-sportsmen
This modified version of the csv file is then used to update the database: 
php run-g5.php gauq g55 tmp2db 03-570-sportsmen

This must be done for all Gauquelin 1955 groups : 
01-576-physicians
02-508-physicians
03-570-sportsmen
04-676-military
05-906-painters
06-361-minor-painters
07-500-actors
08-494-deputies
09-349-scientists
10-884-priests
Other commands can be issued to help the build process (gqid cache and gqid check). For details, type : 
php run-g5.php gauq g55 gqid