"Each individual’s every move will be recorded in his certificate. It will be possible to know what becomes of each individual from his birth to his last breath.” Herein lies the novelty of Guillauté’s project: to engineer a device that would allow the administration to follow every move in real time, to keep track of everybody.

The term control etymologically comes from the French “contre-rolle” (literally, ‘counter-roll’), designating the copy of a document—a list, a ledger, a civil-state registry—which is archived and used in order to verify the conformity of other copies."

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