Le Livre de l’Espérance nommé Curial Transmission et réception aux xv^e et xvi^e siècles

In 1582, the Livre de l’Espérance and the French translation of De vita Curiali, the Curial, were printed in one volume under the title of Curial. It was not the first time that these two works of Alain Chartier were brought together. The objective of this paper is to analyze the manuscript and printed transmission of the Livre de l’Espérance and the Curial to try to discover the reasons that led to associate these two texts, to confuse one work with the other and even to unify them as a single work.