Introduction. On poetic becoming in the seventeenth century
Everything in its right place : location and geography in Boileau's art poetique
Lucretius and cosmogenesis in La Fontaine and Moliere
The invention of Pierre Corneille : place and the new
Racine and the geography of becoming
Landscape and poetic event in Honore d'Urfe's L'Astree
The world written out : space and description from Madeleine de Scudery to the Princesse de Cleves
Conclusion. The chorological early modern.