La « phrase » dans les Lettres meslées de Tristan L’Hermite

This article addresses the issue of textuality in Tristan L’Hermite’s Lettres meslées, and specifically what we shall call the “sentence.” We study the practices of segmentation and sequentiality, taking into account linguistic tools and punctuation. We show that a modern, “grammatical” reading of the text leads us to overlook a crucial aspect of its deep structure, which takes place through the linking of short clauses.