Abstract
The aim of this paper is to identify the various forms and manifestations of a certain relationship to books that took hold and became dominant in French society in the classical age, from 1630 to 1730. This relationship to books is expressed in an act of refusal - in short, a critique of book culture - and, in Roger Chartier's words, engages in a " new order of books ". This order of books corresponds, on the one hand, to a criterion for assembling the best works, a bibliographic canon, and on the other, to the best ways of reading, a critical norm. The thesis defended is that this order of books is the fruit of an aesthetic and is no longer strictly associated with the sphere of knowledge.
