Until the 1980s, the Rhone was managed by an alliance between senior state officials and industrial actors, without any special consideration for the environment. The governance of the river afterward tends to be fragmented between both sectors and territories (actors in the hydroelectric industry, tourism, environment, navigation, local authorities, etc.). Surprisingly enough with regard to the Rhône governance trajectory and its current fragmentation, there is today a broad agreement on the idea of ecological restoration. Analyzing ecological restoration as a policy narrative, this paper seeks to understand how this agreement has emerged and tries at the same time to characterize its very nature. For this purpose, it mobilizes elements of Michel Callon’s sociology of translation in support of the discursive analysis.