Subject matter – SémaFores is the academic blog of the eponymous research center on francophone studies, which is part of the ALITHILA-lab at Université de Lille. It is dedicated to the study of (especially, but not only) literary corpora on the international francophone level, which form a dynamic whole with productions from the “Hexagone”. It questions the antagonism between “French”, so-called central productions and the other productions that, perceived as “peripheral”, are labelled as “francophone”. It decrypts the reticular beacons of deterritorialized, diverse, even creolized French languages, beacons that are active and send their signals throughout the world. Thus, it also focuses on the question of the choice of languages, within often diglossic spaces around the world as well as in France. In doing so, the SémaFores-blog will stimulate reflection on specificities of the related corpora, whose “literary” status and production conditions become clear in the light of a wide spectrum of writings of different kinds.