A holomorphic $d$-web of codimension one in dimension $n$ is "regular", if it satisfies to some condition of genericity. In dimension at least 3, any such web has a rank bounded from above by a number $\pi'(n,d)$ strictly smaller than the bound $\pi(n,d)$ of castelnuovo. This bound $\pi'(n,d)$ is optimal. Moreover, for some $d$'s, the abelian relations are sections with vanishing covariant derivative of some bundle with a connection, the curvature of which generalizes the Blaschke curvature. In dimension 2, we recover results of A. Hénaut.