Jean-Yves Grenier. Reflexions on the use of statistical methods in history. This article explains how historians use statistical methods. The difficulties arise from the nature of the data and from the link between historical problematic and quantitative methods. Then, it focuses on two problems : the validity of the results and the quantitative measure of historical concepts as for instance the historical time or the historical change. More generally, this article examines the risk of a mixed approach (historical and statistical) wich may substitute the technical dynamics to the historical thinking.Jean-Yves Grenier. Réflexions libres sur l'usage des méthodes statistiques en histoire. La façon dont l'historien utilise les méthodes statisti...