Société Générale S.A., colloquially known in English speaking countries as SocGen, is a French-based multinational financial services company founded in 1864, registered in downtown Paris and headquartered nearby in La Défense.
Tours Société Générale, the company's headquarters in La Défense near Paris.
First headquarters built by Société Générale at 56, rue de Provence in Paris
Hôtel de Ligne on Rue Royale, Brussels, seat of the Société Française de Banque et de Dépôts, then local office of Société Générale until the late 20th century
The city block of 29, boulevard Haussmann, remodeled by Société Générale between 1906 and 1912 and its registered office since 1915
La Défense is a major business district in France, located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west of the city limits of Paris. It is part of the Paris metropolitan area in the Île-de-France region, located in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in the communes of Courbevoie, La Garenne-Colombes, Nanterre, and Puteaux.
Clockwise from top: La Défense skyline at night; La Défense station; Esplanade with Grande Arche; La Défense de Paris
La Grande Arche de la Défense and the Yaacov Agam Fountain (1977). The bronze sculpture on the left, seen from the rear, is La Défense de Paris by Louis-Ernest Barrias, after which La Défense is named.
Paris, with the skyscrapers of La Défense in the background and the Eiffel Tower in the foreground taken in 2014
The Grande Arche is the central and defining building of La Défense. It is, with the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile and the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, the third arch on the Historical Axis of Paris.