L’histoire externe des chansonniers des troubadours en France du xvi^e au xviii^e siècle

This article gives a synthesis of the known facts concerning the external history of the troubadours' chansionners, lost or still extant today, in France from the 16^th to the 18^th century. It gives a chronological overview of their circulation, and the most important collections and owners. The appendix offers, for each manuscript, a synthesis of the elements related to the provenance (marks, ex-libris, old catalogs and inventories, contemporary mentions…) and of the bibliography.