The present volume of L’Epoque Conradienne includes 12 papers, 3 of which focusing more particularly on Lord Jim. The 5 papers that deal with The Secret Agent were originally presented at the International Conference of the Société Conradienne Française which took place in Limoges, France (September 14-16, 2006), and was entitled « Femininity, a privilege – not feminism, an attitude »/The “feminine” in Joseph Conrad’s fiction: from ideology to a poetics of heterogeneity. The rest will be published in the 2008 issue.