Société Générale S.A., colloquially known in English-speaking countries as SocGen, is a French multinational universal bank and financial services company founded in 1864. It is registered in downtown
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
Representation of the Ordener attack in L'Excelsior on 22 December 1911, the first motorized armed robbery in history, by the illegalist anarchist Bonnot Gang
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 situated in the Greater Paris metropolitan area in Île-de-France, at the western end of the French capital’s historic axis. The district is home to the headquar
Société Générale
…a French multinational universal bank and financial services company founded in 1864. It is registered in downtown Paris and headquartered nearby in La Défense. Société Générale is France's third largest bank by total assets after BNP Paribas and Crédit Agricole. According to S&P Global's April 2026 report…
La Défense as seen from the Arc de Triomphe
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 2023
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.