Resumen de Le document et la métaphore du voyage de l'historien
Historians frequently use the metaphor of travel as an image to describe their practice. The metaphor, polysemical and polymorphous, can thus be analysed not only through the lens of epistemology and historiography, but also through those of rhetoric and the tools proper to literary criticism. The analysis of the figure as it is used by several historians shows that if it serves to illustrate the retrospective aspect of historiography, it also develops a representation of the way the work of writing affects documents, at the same time as it signals out the experience of otherness as grounding the historian's methodology.
