Tower-bell instruments in France:
index by département and city

NOTE:   This list is not complete - many known instruments remain to be added.

Tower bell instruments, including traditional carillons, non-traditional carillons, chimes, etc., may be found in France in the following départements (organized by administrative region, in geographic order from north to south, east to west):

• Région Nord-Pas-de-Calais (far north): Nord, Pas-de-Calais
   
• Région Alsace (far northeast): Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin
• Région Lorraine (east-northeast): Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Moselle, Vosges
• Région Champagne-Ardenne (north-northeast): Ardennes, Aube, Marne, Haute-Marne
• Région Picardie (north; Picardy): Aisne, Oise, Somme
• Région Haute-Normandie (north-northwest; Upper Normandy): Eure, Seine-Maritime
• Région Basse-Normandie (west-northwest; Lower Normandy): Calvados, Manche, Orne
   
• Région Íle-de-France (north-central): Paris, Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines, Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne, Val-d'Oise
   
• Région Franche-Comté (east): Doubs, Jura, Haute-Saône, Territoire de Belfort
• Région Bourgogne (central-east; Burgundy): Côte-d'Or, Nièvre, Saône-et-Loire; Yonne
• Région Centre (central): Cher, Eure-et-Loir, Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher, Loiret
• Région Pays de la Loire (central-west): Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne, Sarthe; Vendée
• Région Bretagne (far west; Brittany): Côtes-d'Armor, Finistère, Ille-et-Vilaine; Morbihan
   
• Région Rhône-Alpes (east by south): Ain, Ardèche, Drôme; Isère, Loire, Rhône, Savoie, Haute-Savoie
• Région Auvergne (central-SE): Allier, Cantal, Haute-Loire, Puy-de-Dôme
• Région Limousin (central-SW): Corrèze, Creuse, Haute-Vienne
• Région Poitou-Charentes (west by south): Charente, Charente-Maritime, Deux-Sèvres, Vienne
   
• Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (southeast): Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Alpes-Maritimes, Hautes-Alpes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Var, Vaucluse
• Région Languedoc-Roussillon (south-southeast): Aude, Gard, Hérault, Lozère, Pyrénées-Orientales
• Région Midi-Pyrénées (south-central): Ariège, Aveyron; Haute-Garonne, Gers, Lot, Hautes-Pyrénées, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne
• Région Aquitaine (southwest): Dordogne, Gironde, Landes, Lot-et-Garonne; Pyrénées-Atlantiques
   
• Région Corsica (Mediterranean): Corse-du-Sud; Haute-Cors

Click on any underlined département name above to go directly to that section of this index.  Within a département, sites are listed alphabetically by city and site-name.

If you are looking for a specific site by its institutional name (e.g., a church or school) or by the instrument's proper name, then use the "find in page" feature of your Web browser to locate a distinctive word (or partial word) in that name.  Be mindful of diacritical marks!

NOTES:

1. This index not only is geographic but also includes information from the mechanism-specific indexes for this region.  Sites are tagged as follows:

   trad

   traditional carillon

   non-trad

   non-traditional carillon (all mechanisms)

   chime

   chime (all mechanisms)

2. If you do not find here a city (or instrument) which you think should be listed, then check the page of sites that are no more for Europe.  If it's not there, then please send a message to csz_stl@swbell.net telling everything you know about it.

3. Both the département list above and the section headings below show a common English equivalent of the French name of the département when one exists.

In alphabetic order by département name, ignoring prefixes of Bas- (lower) and Haut- (upper).  Départements are commonly (though not always) referenced with their assigned two-digit numbers, which are also shown here

01   Ain, Rhône-Alpes

 [none posted yet]

02   Aisne, Picardie

SAINT-QUENTIN                 : FRANCE - 02  trad
   Hôtel de Ville

04   Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

FORCALQUIER                   : FRANCE - 04  chime
   Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Provence

09   Ariège, Midi-Pyrénées

LEZAT-SUR-LEZE                : FRANCE - 09  chime
   Eglise
PAMIERS - NDC                 : FRANCE - 09  chime
   Notre Dame du Camp
PAMIERS - STA                 : FRANCE - 09  trad
   Cathédrale St-Antonin

11   Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon

CARCASSONNE - STN             : FRANCE - 11  trad
   City carillon
   Basilique St-Nazaire
CARCASSONNE - STV             : FRANCE - 11  trad
   Église Saint-Vincent
NARBONNE                      : FRANCE - 11  trad
   Cathédrale St-Just-et-St-Pasteur

21   Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne

BEAUNE                        : FRANCE - 21  trad
   Les Hospices
DIJON                         : FRANCE - 21  trad
   Cathédral St.Bénigne
NUITS-SAINT-GEORGES           : FRANCE - 21  trad
   Église St-Symphorien
SELONGEY                      : FRANCE - 21  trad
   Eglise

31   Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées

ASPET                         : FRANCE - 31  chime
   Eglise paroissiale

40   Landes, Aquitaine

BUGLOSE                       : FRANCE - 40  non-trad
   Église (Basilique) Nôtre Dame
     de Buglose

59   Nord (Normandy), Nord-Pas-de-Calais

AVESNES-SUR-HELPE             : FRANCE - 59  trad
   Collégiale St.Nicolas
BAILLEUL                      : FRANCE - 59  trad
   Beffroi
   Hôtel de Ville
BOURBOURG                     : FRANCE - 59  trad
   Town belfry
   Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste
     (St.John's Church)
DOUAI - HDV                   : FRANCE - 59  trad
   Beffroi
   Hôtel de Ville (City Hall)
DOUAI - Mobile/2              : FRANCE - 59  trad
   Carillon ambulant de Douai,
     Région Nord, Pas-de-Calais
   (mobile)
DUNKERQUE                     : FRANCE - 59  trad
   Tour Église Saint-Eloi
HAZEBROUCK                    : FRANCE - 59  trad
   Église St-Eloi
SAINT-AMAND-LES-EAUX - 1      : FRANCE - 59  trad
   Tour de l'ancienne Abbaye
SECLIN                        : FRANCE - 59  trad
   Collégiale Saint-Piat

75   Paris, Íle-de-France

PARIS - ESA                   : FRANCE - 00  chime
   European Space Agency
PARIS - SC                    : FRANCE - 00  non-trad
   Basilique du Sacré Coeur de Montmartre

62   Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais

BETHUNE - BC/1                : FRANCE - 62  trad
   Beffroi communal (belfry)
BETHUNE - BC/2                : FRANCE - 62  trad?
   Beffroi communal (fléche)
BETHUNE - SC/Mobile           : FRANCE - 62  trad
   Carillon mobile "Christophe"
   Église Saint-Christophe de Béthune

66   Pyrénées-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon

PERPIGNAN                     : FRANCE - 66  trad
   City carillon
   Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste
   (was Église Saint-Jean)

69   Rhône, Rhône-Alpes

LYON - HDV                    : FRANCE - 69  trad
   Hôtel de Ville (Town Hall)

73   Savoie (Savoy), Rhône-Alpes

CHAMBERY                      : FRANCE - 73  trad
   Château des Ducs de Savoie 

74   Haute-Savoie (Upper Savoy), Rhône-Alpes

ANNECY                        : FRANCE - 74  trad
   Couvent (Basìlique) de la Visitation
TANINGES                      : FRANCE - 74  trad
   Église paroissiale

94   Val-de-Marne, Íle-de-France

BOISSY-SAINT-LEGER            : FRANCE - 94  chime
   St.Leger Centre

86   Vienne, Poitou-Charentes

POITIERS                      : FRANCE - 86  chime
   Bijouterie Landreau
   "La Maison des Fiancés"

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