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This article discusses the publication of so-called books of account and reason, a type of biography, written in the Provence region of France, between the 16th and 18th centuries. The author comments on the similarities in the structure and form of the books and analyzes the uniqueness of their narrative aspects. She also describes the concept of an ego-document, which she considers to be a concept lying somewhere between a literary genre and a testimonial narrative. The characteristics of an autobiography that these ego-documents contain are also highlighted.