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This article is a survey of works published within 1992-2000 on the geometry of the path space over a compact manifold \(M\), mainly by the authors. This constitutes a synthetic and enlightening summary on this domain of research, thereby providing a clear reference for knowing where the matter stands. The leading method is to use Itô stochastic calculus to develop an analogue of the Cartan moving frame in this infinite-dimensional setting. This analogue is provided by the stochastic parallel transport, which allows to model the geometry of the path space over \(M\) upon the classical Wiener space, by means of the Itô map. But this program could not and cannot be achieved without a lot of serious difficulties and questions, which are inherent both to the infinite dimensions and to the curvature. The right basic notions and objects, together with the basic facts and formulae, seem to be now essentially well brought out and established, but likely not yet totally and definitively. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0986.00012].