List of palaces in France

France has many palaces throughout its vast territory. The list is incomplete.

Paris

• Conciergerie, site of the first royal palace, now part of the Palais de Justice
• Grand Palais, site of the Universal Exposition of 1900
• Hôtel de Matignon, official residence of the Prime Minister
• Hôtel de Sully
• Hôtel Lambert
• Palais Bourbon, home of the French National Assembly
• Palais Brongniart, location of the Paris Bourse (stock exchange)
• Palais de l'Elysée, presidential palace of France from 1848 to 1852, 1874–1940, and then from 1946 until now
• Palais de la Cité, also simply known as le Palais, first royal palace of France, from before 1000 until 1363; now the seat of the courts of justice of Paris and of the Court of Cassation (the supreme court of France)
• Palais de la Légion d'honneur
• Palais du Louvre, second royal palace of France, from 1364 until 1789; now the Louvre Museum
• Palais du Luxembourg, home of the French Senate
• Palais Royal, originally the home of Richelieu, it became a royal palace when the young King Louis XIV, his mother Anne of Austria, and Mazarin moved in; later belonged to the dukes of Orléans; now the seat of the Conseil d'État and of the Ministry of Culture
• Palais des Tuileries, third royal/imperial palace of France, 1789–1792, 1804–1848, 1852–1870, destroyed in 1871
• Petit Palais, home of the Paris Museum of Fine Arts (Musée de Beaux Arts)

Versailles

• Château de Versailles, former main residence of the French royal family^[1]
• Grand Trianon
• Petit Trianon

Île-de-France

• Château de Bagatelle, Neuilly-sur-Seine
• Château de Chantilly, Chantilly
• Château de Compiègne
• Château d'Écouen, Écouen
• Château de Fontainebleau, former royal residence in Fontainebleau
• Château de La Roche-Guyon, La Roche-Guyon
• Château de Maisons-Laffitte
• Château de Rambouillet, presidential summer residence in Rambouillet
• Château de Saint-Cloud
• Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye
• Château de Sceaux
• Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte
• Château de Vincennes

Elsewhere

• Château d'Amboise
• Château d'Anet
• Château d'Angers
• Château d'Azay-le-Rideau
• Château de Blois
• Château de Brézé
• Château de Cayx, Cahors, a residence of the Danish Royal Family
• Château de Chambord^[2]
• Château de Châteaudun
• Château de Châteauneuf
• Château de Chantilly
• Château de Chaumont
• Château de Chenonceau
• Château de Cheverny
• Château de Commercy
• Château de Condé
• Château de Dissay ^{[citation needed]}
• Château d'Ételan
• Château de Lunéville
• Château de Montbéliard
• Château de la Mothe-Chandeniers
• Château de Nexon ^{[citation needed]}
• Château de Pierrefonds
• Château de la Rivière Bourdet
• Château de Saumur
• Château de Talcy
• Château de Valençay
• Château de Villandry
• Château de Vitré
• Château de Saumur
• Château des ducs de Savoie^[3]
• Château de Sully-sur-Loire
• Château d'Ussé^[4]
• Palais des ducs et des États de Bourgogne, Dijon (palace of the famous dukes of Burgundy)
• Palais des Papes, Avignon (palace of the popes in the Middle Ages)
• Palace of the Kings of Majorca, Perpignan
• Palais des rois de Navarre, Pau (palace of the kings of Navarre) ^{[citation needed]}
• Palais ducal de Nancy, Nancy (palace of the dukes of Lorraine)
• Palais ducal de Nevers, Nevers (palace of the dukes of Nevers)

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