Even if the stylistic branch of the language sciences can be dated to the publication of Bally’s Précis de stylistique in 1905, and even if the French destiny of the discipline coincides with the side-lining, to a certain degree, of rhetoric, stylistics, as a practical reflection, also finds its origins in a specific way of thinking the French language, woven during the 19th century from different types of stories, institutional or literary.