Abstract
Is there such a thing as an enlightenment body ? Over the past few decades, the multiplication of objectifying perspectives on the body in history tends to the extreme fragmentation of such a topic. This article defends an exploration of the body as a singular and experienced reality which remains situated in a given historical context. The case of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, studied thanks to a particularly rich set of archives (diaries, letters, various notes) bears witness to the fact that Saussure, as an individual, elaborates and affirms the meaning of his private body according to experiences and to intimate knowledge and conviction which are forever being revised during his life. The historian can thus analyse the relationship between the scale of the singular body and that of the Enlightenment body.
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