Sceaux (French pronunciation: [so] ⓘ) is a commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department in the southern suburbs of Paris, France.

His duchesse held court in a glittering salon at Sceaux in the first decades of the eighteenth century.

The present-day château, rebuilt between 1856 and 1862 in a Louis XIII style, is now the museum of Île-de-France open for visits.

The commune also offers a developed network of buses which are often used by the Scéens (the name given to the residents of Sceaux).

French scientists and writers have graduated from lycée Lakanal, such as Nobel Prize winners Maurice Allais, Jean Giraudoux, Alain-Fournier and Frédéric Joliot-Curie.

The Parc de Sceaux was the location of Madonna's Parisian first visit with her Who's That Girl World Tour 29 August 1987, front 131,000 people, the largest crowd of any concert in French history.

[10][11] In the classic French O-Level textbook series for English-speaking pupils, Le Francais d'Aujourd-hui, the Bertillon family move out to Sceaux from inner-city Paris during the course of the book's main narrative.