Statistical approach to the " Concours de l'Institut" concerning language and mind (topics, authors, etc...). Les premiers périodiques linguistiques français (1784-1840) (S. Auroux, F. Dougnac, T. Hordé) Inventory of French periodicals on language, from the Journal de la langue Française by U. Domergue. down to the Journal de la langue française et des langues en général, which became the organ of the Société de Linguistique. six of those periodicals are described, with a brief analysis of their content and orientation; introduction on the usefulness of that type of work which had until now been absent in the history of linguistics.