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Exploring lexicon implies access to the meaning of lexical units, as well as mastery of a whole set of formal, paradigmatic, syntagmatic or simply associative relations between them. Thus, how can a lexical resource manage to account for the global structure of the lexicon on the one hand, providing detailed lexicographic description of single lexical units on the other? With such a double perspective, the paper discusses the data structure encoded in the French Lexical Network (RL-fr), resource that implements lexical system model (Polguère 2014, 2016). Further, a handful of its possible applications are considered.