This article studies the "Belgiques" collection, created in 2017 by the Walloon publishing house Ker editions for the purpose of presenting "un portrait en mosaique de la Belgique" through the publication of two to four short story books under the same eponymous title each year. Following the evolution of this original initiative, which brings together autobiography and fiction, I analyze how, in the present 19-volume corpus, the heterogeneous format of the short stories created by a selection of French-speaking Belgian authors combines a mental cartography of their country by intersecting diachronic and synchronic perspectives, in which the distinctive iconography of each cover plays an important role. This comparative analysis identifies a series of significant moti-fs and certain "petites mythologies belges" (J.-M. Klinkenberg, 2003), i.e, a kaleidoscope representing a plural and mixed Belgium, which I con-textualize within the literary-historical backdrop that affirmed "belgitude" in 1976, by referring to critical works related to this concept.
