In this article, we show that the use of the conditional that we call “conditionnel épistémique 1” (CE1) can be considered, in its own right, by its conventional meaning, as an reportive evidential marker. We also show that the meaning element of non-commitment (neutral position), which is often associated with this tense as neutral stance of the speaker, sometimes even as the most important feature of its proper meaning, “en langue”, is only a secondary meaning element, which derives indirectly from its reportive meaning and can be perfectly overruled by elements of the context.