This volume, in relation to the history of reading and the sociology of texts, aims to consider the theoretical choices at work in various editions of the complete works of authors from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Keyword: Clément Marot, Ronsard, Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné, Jean de La Fontaine, Nicolas Boileau, Blaise Pascal, Cardinal de Retz, histoire éditoriale, histoire du livre, sociologie de la lecture