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<jats:p>Abstract. - Unemployment rate is a necessary but not sufficient indicator expressing the spatial dimension of social and economic difficulties (precarious- ness, poverty, exclusion). By introducing an indicator turning on marginality global concept, we try to make keener the social reading of French space. Through a study on national and regional scales, we suggest a geography much closer to social realities and qualifying the traditional oppositions between Paris/Provinces, Town/Country or Littoral/Hinterland. In this way, the indicator of marginality contributes to the understanding of social disparities which punctuate the territory.</jats:p>