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Aſtrée† is a repository of 2000 early modern instructions in French drawn from 162 French novels published between 1600 and 1700. Aſtrée can be used to fine-tuned any LLM on early modern French.

All the instructions have been created from one page excerpts extracting from public domain works with historical writing and typography. They may include OCR errors that should not affect significantly the quality of text generation.

Beyond their cultural relevance, Aſtrée provides a very good sample for fine-tuning demonstration, as even a small set will dramatically change the output of the LLM.

†*The correct name could not be used in the title due to alphanumerical restrictions on accented characters and historical long s. It is obviously inspired by one of the most celebrated novel from French 17th literature, L'Aſtrée.*