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Senate

upper house of the French Parliament
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Summary

Senate is an assembly[1]. Senate ranks in the top 6% of assembly entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (17,810 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: France[3]
  • Instance of: senate[4]
  • Headquarters location: Luxembourg Palace[5]
  • Part of: French Parliament[6]
  • Commons category: Senate of France[7]
  • Industry: administration publique générale[8]
  • Chairperson: Gérard Larcher[9]
  • Has part(s): Q58714592[10], Finances Committee[11], Commission des Affaires économiques (Sénat)[12], Commission du Développement durable (Sénat)[13], Q59315796[14]
  • Inception: April 28, 1859[15]
  • Official website: https://www.senat.fr/[16]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Senate (France)[17]
  • Commons gallery: Sénat (France)[18]
  • Applies to jurisdiction: France[19]
  • External data available at URL: https://data.senat.fr/[20]
  • Number of seats: 348[21]
  • Replaces: Council of the Republic[22]
  • Official name: SENAT[23]
  • Legal form: constitutional authority[24]
  • Main Wikidata property: P1808[25]
  • Native label: Sénat de la France[26]
  • Different from: Senat[27]
  • Position held by head of the organization: President of the Senate of France[28]
  • Has part(s) of the class: Senator of the French Fifth Republic[29]
  • Citizens' initiative URL: https://petitions.senat.fr/[30]

Why It Matters

Senate has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] Senate is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Related Entities

assembly France

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  6. [8] ↑ . SIRENE. wikidata.org.
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  19. [21] ↑ . web.archive.org. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  21. [23] ↑ . SIRENE. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . SIRENE. wikidata.org.
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  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16w ago · Daieuxetdailleurs · 2026-06-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Francearchives agent id → 165488368
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