Abstract: When Jacques Gaffarel published his Curiositez inouyes in 1629, the editorial gesture scandalized the Sorbonne. If the work contains philosophical elements that are problematic from a confessional point of view, it is above all its relationship to the polymorphous notion of curiosity that suggests the necessity of a political reading. Gaffarel took advantage of an ambiguous lexical zone to take a stand against Garasse's Doctrine curieuse (1624).
