During late orogenic evolution, deformation of the continental lithosphere is highly influenced by partial melting and magmatic processes. Melt-assisted deformation of the partially-molten middle crust plays a major role in the accommodation of large horizontal and vertical displacements of molten crustal domains during the building of the orogenic plateaus as described in actual and ancient orogenic systems (e.g. Himalayan-Tibetan, Andean and Variscan belts). In detail, syn-orogenic deformation, melts segregation and melt migration in the orogenic crust are complex phenomena, which interact at several time and space scales.Through structural, petrological and geochronological studies of the Variscan Agly and Aiguilles-Rouges massifs (North...