  Is there an ADT method that can deal with non-aligned bilingual corpora? Does
the textual genre exert a sufficiently strong constraint on the discourse that
would make texts written in different languages comparable, provided they are
of identical genre? To answer these two questions, one methodological, the
other linguistic, this contribution gathers in a single corpus French and
Brazilian presidential speeches of the contemporary era (1950-2020), from de
Gaulle to Macron, from Kubitschek to Lula, i.e. 15 million words. A
methodological path is proposed from the simple frequency dictionary to the
factorial treatment of the cooccurrencial profiles of words, in order to
establish a generic transnational presidential speech.
