The project is dedicated to the study of the earliest texts of French and Occitan literature. They all precede the great literary
production of the 12th and 13th centuries and are located in a previous phase of formation of Gallo-Romance literary languages. It is
precisely through the mutual interrelation of linguistic and metrical structures, rhetorical articulations, and literary purposes within
these texts that we can better understand the beginnings and follow the unfolding of Old French and Occitan literary languages.