The book did not exist. There were some testimonies or ethnography of men on the streets, a medico-legal or compassionate view, rather miserabilistic journalistic stories for a few months in accommodation centres, but a point of sociology. From the outset, the ‘live on the street’ event does not lie in the events that happen there, says Corinne Lanzarini, at least its topical event is possible only through a series of institutional violence,...