This article seeks to reaffirm the Jérôme Paturot novels as a cycle romanesque, by drawing on the 1842-1843 serialised novel ( Jérôme Paturot à la recherche d’une position sociale), along with its forgotten sequel, Jérôme Paturot à la recherche de la meilleure des Républiques, which was well received upon its publication in 1848. We aim to review the development and reconfiguration of this poétique romanesque in the context of the “climacteric year” that was 1848. Because the climate in the French republic justifies the extension to the narrative, while also subverting the principle of the memoir-novel of the 1842-1843 period. This article thus shows how political commentary reshapes the picaresque form of the first novel and how satirical readability, newly adopted, corrects the uncertain meaning of the page of history, recounted on the spot.