In antiquity, a châtelet (French pronunciation: [ʃatlɛ]) was a little castle or fortress, wherein the chatelain (French pronunciation: [ʃatlɛ̃]), or governor lodged.
Now, the term may refer to:
- Châtelet, Belgium, a city in Belgium
- Émilie du Châtelet, the 18th century French mathematician, physicist, and author who was a woman
- François Châtelet (died 1985), French historian of political philosophy
- Place du Châtelet, a public square in Paris, on the right bank of the Seine on the border of the 1st and 4th arrondissements
- The Grand Châtelet, a former stronghold with courts, police, and prisons on the site of the Place du Châtelet
- Théâtre du Châtelet, a theatre in Paris, on the Place du Châtelet
- Châtelet (Paris Métro), a Metro station in Paris, located near the Place du Châtelet
- Châtelet - Les Halles (Paris RER), the central commuter train station in Paris, attached to both the Châtelet and Les Halles metro stations
- Châtelet surface, a surface in algebraic geometry
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