Le texte intégral de cet article est téléchargeable gratuitement sur le site de la revue "L'Espace politique", à l'URL suivante : http://espacepolitique.revues.org/index161.html.National audienceNew regionalism, new place names: the stakes of neotoponymy This paper analyzes the relationships between topo- nymy and new regionalism: new territories, e.g. mu- nicipalities, regions or project-centered territories created by cooperation between previously existing territories, are being named. This naming process the invention of new place names - does not aim,at replacing already existing place names, but it highli- ghts brand new spaces generated by processes such as demarcation or devolution. We insist that the production and selection of new...