The rise of the press in the nineteenth century leads to a deep disruption in modes of publication. Nearly all of the literary production of the century is published on the first hand in the newspaper, a genuine laboratory for the journalist-writers, before being published in books. This dual scheme also applies to non-fictional press articles, torn from the newspapers pages in order to be collected in volumes. However, do these collections, mosaics of snatches of everyday life, succeed in « making a book » ? The case of George Sand, a female writer who applies herself to the collection and the perpetuation of her press articles, and the study of prototypical models of the genre will allow us to analyse the recomposition gestures at work during the elaboration of these hybrid objects.