La logique de la citation dans le Recueil de l’origine de la langue et poesie françoise (1581) de Claude Fauchet

Book II of the Receuil by Claude Fauchet (1581) can be considered the first French anthology of medieval poetry. Benefitting from the fashion for anthologies or collections of modern poetry, but also from a change (specific to the end of the sixteenth century) in the regime of “allegation,” the author, despite the urgency with which he composes his work, selects and arranges citations according to a precise typology, functionality, and modes of insertion that this study aims to analyze.