Apart from a list of names and works, on what does a collaborative and active literary movement rest ? In order to answer this question, the article reconsiders the notion of collective identity and its possible application to the Romantic Movement of 1830. Such an interrogation reveals the existence of other operating factors, apart from the widely upheld notion of the literary generation, including : shared social characteristics, the adoption of spaces of sociability (the cenacles), and finally the construction of collective discourses, most particularly in reviews and journals, which helped to transmit a unified and unifying image of the literary group.