Fan history: Octave Uzanne and other historians of ubiquity and (f)utility -- The fan format in the visual arts: a little-known favorite of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists -- The commemorative functions of fans -- La dernière mode as precursor to the éventails -- Formal characteristics of the éventails: text and para-text -- The influence of the éventails on the Mallarméan œuvre -- The expansion of the subgenre in cent phrases pour éventails: parallels between Mallarméan and Claudelian fan poetry -- Plastic poetry: formal characteristics of the phrases -- From concrete poetry to the artist's book -- The fan: between the ideal and the real
