Éric Trudel & Maria de Fátima Barbosa de Mesquita Batista (éds)International audienceThis article presents the original intuitions, the methodological principles, and the first results of the Sittelle project (Sémantique interprétative et textuelle / Interpretative and textual semantics). This action investigates how a digital corpus of texts from François Rastier, powered by textometric software, can provide new relevant means for methodical readings of these texts. Several features of Rastier’s scientific works support such an approach: the magnitude of data, their unity of thought, and a flexibly organized writing style, often involving evocation or reuse of key passages.Textometric analysis features are illustrated through an experiment...