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The following article discusses various concepts adapted by French historiography to refer to the region between Germany and Russia. What we can maintain about the definitions of Central or East Central Europe in this corpus of texts is that they have a few persistent characteristics: a multiform culture, a fluctuating geography between West and Byzantium and fringes that constitute the periphery of the Western civilization. But above those consensual characteristics, the variety of the names shows a strong hesitation, highlighted by the fact that French historians have not agreed on this yet: we can still read about Central Europe, East Central Europe or Median Europe.