National audienceThis paper begins with an overview of how the role of landscape is perceived today by institutions, education, land development, and in research at both the local and international levels. This overview is then extended to how landscape is variously interpreted in France today. This paper then attempts to analyse how landscape is perceived in French society, and in particular from an environmental and ecological perspective. It then concludes with an analysis of the current stakes involved with landscape, in particular at the European level.Après avoir retracé les contours de l'espace occupé aujourd'hui par le paysage dans les institutions, l'enseignement, l'aménagement, la recherche, à diverses échelles, du local à l'inter...