“…Yet, despite this ephemeral and heterogeneous character, every manuscript has in its horizon, essentially, an arrival point at which "textual" unity is achieved, simultaneously, through recursive and non-linear dimensions. 2 The investigation of this processual character of the "text in construction" (Fenoglio, 2007;Maher, 2009) has been the focus of many studies on the written text at school (Boré, 2010;Doquet, 2011;Fradet, 2010;Fiad, 2013, among others) in Textual Genetics. Of particular interest, is the work of Fabre (1990), who highlighted the importance of the manuscript (brouillon) and of the erasure (rature) of the student in the context of school writing, has more recently been extended to include literary manuscripts (Fabre-Cols, 2004).…”