The author examines the intellectual and the scholar in Francophoneminority milieus and provides a portrait which is both critical andconstructive. Using the example of the situation that prevails in theAcadie of New Brunswick and after noticing that the topic does notusually generate a lot of interest, he tries to determine the commontypes of scientific and intellectual dependance in Francophone minoritymilieus. Contrasting the intellectual and the scholar of the past andthe present, he also attempts to define their respective limits andpossibilities and their current influence.