Maison d'Armande Béjart · Photo: Lionel Allorge · CC BY-SA 3.019 historic monuments, 11 classé
Meudon has 4.1 monuments for every 10,000 residents, more per resident than 65% of compared French towns; the median compared French town has 2.5. Meudon’s oldest monuments date from the 16th century. 11 of Meudon’s monuments are in our photos.
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Meudon in 11 photos
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Maison de plaisance de J.-J. HuvéClassé
Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA)Classé
Musée Rodin ou Villa les BrillantsClassé
Domaine de MeudonClassé
Église Saint-MartinClassé+6See all photosPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its license; names open the monument’s page.
Where Meudon’s monuments stand
Every monument with a point on the ministry’s list; the larger, darker dots are classé.
Tap a dot to open the monument’s page: its record, photo and the monuments around it.
Classé is the higher protection: any work on the building needs the State’s permission. Work on an inscrit building must be declared to the State in advance. Around both, building work in sight of the monument (usually within 500 m) needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France.
Points as the ministry gives them: a monument spread over several plots has one point.
11 classé monuments in Meudon
Classé is France’s highest protection for a building, held by about a third of the monuments on the list. 1 of the 11 is protected in part only (a façade, a roof, a room). Each card opens the monument’s page.
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Classé8 inscrit monuments in Meudon
Inscrit is the second level of protection: the building is worth keeping, and any work on it must be declared.
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InscritMost of Meudon’s monuments are houses and homes
Each monument under the main domain Mérimée gives it.
Houses & homes: 12 of 19 monuments (63%). 1 is a religious building, 1 of them classé.
Mérimée files each monument under one main domain: a château with its chapel counts once. 5 have no domain on the list.
How old Meudon’s monuments are
Each monument once, by the oldest part the list dates.
The oldest dated: Église Saint-Martin (16th & 17th c.). 4 monuments have no date on the list.
5 of Meudon’s monuments were protected in 1990
Monuments by the year they were first protected.
First protected, in 1891: Maison d'Armande Béjart. 5 were protected in 1990 alone. 4 have been added since 2011.
18 people born in Meudon before 1900
Their lives on one line.
Everyone born in Meudon Birthplaces from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia.
Historic monuments in the towns around Meudon
| Town | Residents | Monuments | Classé | Protected area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meudon | 46,334 | 19 | 11 | — |
| Clamart | 58,576 | 8 | 3 | Yes |
| Sèvres | 22,303 | 10 | 2 | — |
| Issy-les-Moulineaux | 67,669 | 8 | 2 | — |
| Boulogne-Billancourt | 119,019 | 19 | 2 | — |
| Le Plessis-Robinson | 28,848 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Chaville | 20,594 | 0 | 0 | — |
Meudon in brief
Meudon has 19 historic monuments, 11 of them classé, including Maison d'Armande Béjart. Bâtiments et dépendances de la Résidence Marcelin Berthelot sits at the heart of it all, with 5 of the town’s classé monuments within 400 m. Musée Rodin ou Villa les Brillants is one of the Maisons des Illustres, the homes of people who left their mark on France. Of the whole list, 63% are houses and homes.
Of the 15 with a date, 9 come from the 16th to 18th centuries. The oldest is Église Saint-Martin, from the 16th century. Of the 18 people born here before 1900, the best known include Louis Bonaparte (1864), Antoine Redier (1873) and Jean Robiquet (1874). The rest is about typical: it has 19 historic monuments, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 7); per resident it sits near the middle of compared French towns; and 7.3% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 7.4% in the median compared French town.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Monuments historiques. France protects buildings at two levels. Classé, the higher (about a third of the list), means any work needs the State’s permission; inscrit means work must be declared to the State in advance. The Culture ministry’s Mérimée base lists every protected building, and this page counts them.
- Partly protected. Many entries protect part of a building only (its façades and roofs, a staircase, a painted room). Each counts as one monument, like a fully protected one.
- Where a monument is counted. In the commune named on its protection, moved to today’s commune where communes have since merged. A monument listed for several communes counts in each.
- Sites patrimoniaux remarquables. Since 2016 France’s protected historic areas (the former secteurs sauvegardés, ZPPAUP and AVAP) share one name. Inside one, building work follows the area’s plan and needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France.
- What isn’t here. Protected objects (furniture, organs, paintings), old buildings with no protection, UNESCO World Heritage listings and labels such as “Plus Beaux Villages de France” aren’t on this list, so this page doesn’t count them.
- No History Grade yet. Everything on this page is described, not graded: France’s History Grade isn’t built yet.
Questions about the history of Meudon
How many historic monuments are there in Meudon?
The Culture ministry lists 19 historic monuments in Meudon: 11 classé and 8 inscrit.
Which monuments in Meudon are classé?
11, among them Église Saint-Martin, Maison d'Armande Béjart, Maison de plaisance de J.-J. Huvé, Domaine de Meudon, Musée Rodin ou Villa les Brillants and Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA).
How old are the monuments of Meudon?
The oldest parts of its listed monuments date from the 16th century.
When were monuments in Meudon first protected?
The first in 1891, the latest in 2022.
How old are the homes in Meudon?
7.3% of its main homes were built before 1919 (median compared French town: 7.4%).
France has no History Grade yet: this page describes, it doesn’t grade.
Sources: Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée base on POP (immeubles protégés au titre des monuments historiques), October 2026 · Ministère de la Culture, sites patrimoniaux remarquables, October 2026 · INSEE, census 2023 (main homes by build period) · Wikidata and Wikipedia (people born here) · Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata (photos of the monuments, each with its own credit and license) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated November 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.