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The main object of our study is to analyse some parametric variation involved in prepositional à/de-structures in French. These French constructions, generally considered as involving prepositional phrases, manifest a variety of structural independences in their syntactic operations. After observing the distribution of ‘à/de’ in non-infinitival constructions, we revised the existing arguments related to both of them. In order to support our revised proposal, we compared the analyses of the Modern French infinitival constructions with those of Old French counterparts. Finally we concluded as follows: The fact that, differently from the ‘de’, the ‘à’ is transparent to an A-type movement and a certain kind of locality condition is not because they have different parts of speech status, but because they imply, in addition, different kinds of syntactic behaviors.