«Les règles du jeu» dans “L’Heptaméron” de Marguerite de Navarre

The purpose of this experimental research concerns the first thirty short stories (out of 72) in the Heptaméron by Marguerite de Navarre, from a structural and enunciative point of view. The starting hypothesis is that this work is a game and the aim is to elucidate some of the rules of the game. Consequently: analysis of the enunciative situations (the weather and its repercussions, social, religious and monastic systems) of the various speeches and speakers; connections between narratives (one speaker) and discourses (several speakers); between fiction and history; the big importance of stock phrases; systematics of the characters, when and how they may begin to speak. The analysis of the content is more difficult to formalize, and we begin to deal with it by advancing a lot of hypotheses about the way the stories are linked from a thematic point of view