Following in the footsteps of the previous six colloquia, the primary goal of this seventh colloquium (Lyon, June 16¿18 2003) was to bring together scholars interested in geographical varients of French, especially those concerned with comparing French in Canada and France. The records contain seventeen of the nineteen lectures and focus on two topics: the influence of Gardette on Franco-Canadian lexiconical research and the evaluation of regional linguistic atlases.