All field notes referring to the ethnography of the Gypsies speak of the particular difficulties encountered, at one time or another, in the course of the research, but also of the problems linked with the publication of pictures and, in particular, of texts concerning them, to the extent that they are not in control. Rather than continuing to analyse how some specificity came into being, it would be better to concentrate on the place that each Gypsy community occupies in society at large.