Bardella Stylometry
Does Jordan Bardella write his own books? A stylometric inquiry, from speech to writing.
Objective
Compare the style of Jordan Bardella’s transcribed oral speeches and of his written texts, given the doubts about who actually writes the books published under his name.
Current state
- A first pipeline (02/2026) gave contradictory results.
- A second methodology (09/2026) calibrates the approach on a control corpus: 13 authors, including several confirmed ghostwriting cases.
- A disappointment: the results confirm nothing. A ghostwriter does not leave a stylometric trace clear enough to settle the question.
Progress log
- 26/02/2026: created the project page; first pipeline.
- 09/2026: second pipeline completed on the control corpus.
- 10/2026: project closed, inconclusive results.
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