Abstract. - This paper deals with the current process of specialization- intensification which obviously defines the french agriculture. This strong process improves the agricultural level at one, and the same time it may give it more instability. With new datas about farmholdings, according to Common Market statistics (OTEX classification, i.e. Technico-Economic Orientation of the Exploitations), the trend of specialization between 1970 and 1980 is measured in two directions : as a specialization observed in the farmholding-organisation and as a specialization observed in rural areas. The question is : does the specialization simplify the agricultural pattern as it would seem on a shallow view ?Résumé. - L'article, grâce à de nouvelles sou...