When Saussure took part in the organization of the Tenth International Congress of Orientalists (Geneva, 1894), his goal was (i) to gain recognition for Indo-European Linguistics as an autonomous scholarly discipline in the field of academic Orientalism, distinct as such from literary, mythological and archeological Indo-European studies and – at the same time – as a General Linguistics, distinct from studies dedicated to specific languages or language families ; (ii) to gain recognition of his own group (or “school”) of linguists (the Geneva School), a school able to defend the interests of Linguistics within the multidisciplinary field of Orientalism.La participation des saussuriens au congrès des orientalistes (Genève, 1894) constitue un...