Article en ligne sur CAIRN : http://www.cairn.info/revue-les-cahiers-du-numerique-2011-3-page-123.htmInternational audienceEditing on line the documentary files of Bouvard et Pécuchet is a project with a twofold objective: to provide access to numerous and complex documents (2500 pages), firstly, and secondly, to make this large corpus (3500 images) be manipulated in order to produce conjectural reconstructions of the second volume of a novel Flaubert's sudden death left unfinished. For this purpose, six types of editorials objects were created (corpus, pages, fragments, texts, quotes and layouts) that contribute to renew the literary hypertext and offer the reader an original apprehension of the work - as close as possible to the functioni...