Recent detained works On coUuvial deposits in South-West France intend to build a litho- and pedostratigraphic sequence of the last interglacial-glacial climatic cycle, as paleoclimatic interpretations from cave deposits soon available were for few years called in question again. Les Tares section (Dordogne) is nowadays the most complete one and is taken there as an example. The microscopic characteristics of paleosols are used for correlating this section with theses from the northern part of France. Thus, we can clearly show : — a complex of soils «lessivés» and washed deposits, related to the Eemian interglacial and the early glacial; — gelifluction deposits correlated with the whole or a part of the weichselian pleniglacials. A permaf...