List of trolleybus systems in France

This is a list of trolleybus systems in France by region. It includes all trolleybus systems, past and present. Bold text indicates a system that is still operating.

Alsace

Name of system	Location	Date	Date	Notes
Gleislose Bahn Mühlhausen	Mulhouse	9 October 1908	14 July 1918	See also Trolleybus de Mulhouse for the first system, German denomination Gleislose Bahn Mühlhausen for the first system, because Mulhouse was part of German Empire until 1918.
Gleislose Bahn Mühlhausen	Mulhouse	5 July 1946	1968	See also Trolleybus de Mulhouse for the first system, German denomination Gleislose Bahn Mühlhausen for the first system, because Mulhouse was part of German Empire until 1918.
	Strasbourg	27 May 1939	31 March 1962

Aquitaine

Name of system	Location	Date	Date	Notes
	Bordeaux	May 1940	1954

Burgundy

Name of system	Location	Date	Date	Notes
	Dijon	7 January 1950	30 March 1966

Brittany

Name of system	Location	Date	Date	Notes
	Brest	29 July 1947	1970
	Saint-Malo	1906	5 June 1907	Electrobus designed by Louis Lombard-Gérin made by Compagnie de Traction par Trolley Automoteur, and run by Société des Tracteurs Breton.
	Saint-Malo	10 July 1948	30 September 1959

Centre-Val de Loire

Name of system	Location	Date	Date	Notes
	Tours	5 October 1947	29 June 1968	See also Trolleybuses in Tours.

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Name of system	Location	Date	Date	Notes
	Belfort	4 July 1952	1 August 1972

Upper Normandy

Name of system	Location	Date	Date	Notes
	Le Havre	1 August 1947	28 December 1970
	Rouen	2 January 1933	26 June 1970

Île-de-France

Name of system	Location	Date	Date	Notes
	Fontainebleau	12 June 1901	30 August 1913	Louis Lombard-Gérin, first commercial trolleybus route.
	Paris	2 August 1900	12 November 1900	at Vincennes, Lombard-Gérin.
	Paris	1912	1914	at Saint-Mandé. Mercedes-Stoll. Also January 1922 demonstration.
	♦ Vitry-sur-Seine	7 April 1925	8 July 1935
	♦ Porte de Champerret – Bezons / Argenteuil	8 January 1943	31 March 1962
	♦ Porte de Choisy – Choisy-le-Roi and Porte d'Italie – Thiais	16 January 1950	31 March 1966

Languedoc-Roussillon

Name of system	Location	Date	Date	Notes
	Nîmes – Remoulins	10 July 1924	31 December 1927
	Perpignan	21 September 1952	June 1968

Limousin

Name of system	Location	Date	Date	Notes
	Limoges	14 July 1943		See also Trolleybuses in Limoges.

Lorraine

Name of system	Location	Date	Date	Notes
	Forbach	19 May 1951	1 November 1969
	Metz	14 September 1947	30 April 1966
	Nancy	27 September 1982		See Trolleybuses in Nancy.

Midi-Pyrénées

Name of system	Location	Date	Date	Notes
	Montauban	January 1903	1904	Lombard-Gerin.

Pays de la Loire

Name of system	Location	Date	Date	Notes
	Le Mans	13 November 1947	1969

Picardy

Name of system	Location	Date	Date	Notes
	Amiens	1946	February 1963

Poitou-Charentes

Name of system	Location	Date	Date	Notes
	Poitiers	9 August 1943	3 March 1965

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Name of system	Location	Date	Date	Notes
	Aubagne – Cuges-les-Pins	19 September 1927	20 July 1958
	Marseille	13 June 1903	1 September 1905	First system, Lombard-Gerin, connected Allauch and La Rose.
	Marseille	26 April 1942	25 June 2004	Second system included an interurban line to Aix-en-Provence.
	Nice	30 April 1942	12 September 1970
	Toulon	7 May 1949	19 February 1973

Rhône-Alpes

Name of system	Location	Date	Date	Notes
	Chambéry	6 October 1930	June 1940
	Grenoble	1 August 1947	24 June 1999
	Lyon	1 September 1905	10 September 1906	First system, Schiemann, located at Charbonnières-les-Bains.
	Lyon	4 September 1935	–	See also Trolleybuses in Lyon.
	Modane - Lanslebourg	20 August 1923	June 1940
	Moûtiers – Salins (-les-Thermes)	15 April 1930	March 1965
	Saint-Étienne	1 January 1942		System included an interurban line to Firminy. See also Trolleybuses in Saint-Étienne.

Note: The former TVR, or GLT, system in Caen and the Translohr system in Clermont-Ferrand are not listed, as they are not commonly considered to be trolleybus systems, since their vehicles use pantographs to collect current and therefore were not able to operate away from the surface guideway while remaining in electric mode. The GLT vehicles formerly used on the Nancy system, by comparison, were able to do so, as they used trolley poles to collect current, so the Nancy system continued to be considered a trolleybus system during its GLT era.

Books and periodicals

Bruce, Ashley. Lombard-Gerin and Inventing the Trolleybus Trolleybooks, 2017,.
Murray, Alan. World Trolleybus Encyclopaedia. Reading, Berkshire, UK: Trolleybooks. .Trolleybus Magazine, various issues. National Trolleybus Association. Bimonthly. ISSN 0266-7452.