Sans souci is French for "no worries" or "carefree".

Sans Souci, Sans-souci, or Sanssouci may also refer to:

Place names

Australia

  • Sans Souci, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney.

Canada

  • Sans Souci, Ontario, a community located on Frying Pan Island, in Georgian Bay

Caribbean

  • Sans Souci, a neighborhood Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
  • Sans-Souci Palace, Haiti
  • Sans Souci, a village on the island of Wakenaam, Guyanna
  • Sans Souci, a village in Toco, Trinidad and Tobago

Germany

  • Sanssouci, the summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, in Potsdam, Germany
  • Sanssouci Park, the park surrounding the palace

South Africa

  • Sans Souci, KwaZulu-Natal, a settlement near the lower Tugela River

United States

  • Sans Souci, Arkansas, an unincorporated community in Mississippi County
  • Sans Souci, Florida, a place in Florida
  • Sans Souci, Michigan, an unincorporated community
  • Sans Souci, a neighborhood of New Rochelle, New York
  • Sans Souci, South Carolina, a census-designated place
  • Sans Souci Beach, an 1890s resort in Honolulu, Hawaii, named by George Lycurgus
  • Sans Souci Island, an island located in the Cedar River at Waterloo, Iowa
  • Sans Souci Valley, the former name of a valley in San Francisco
  • Sans Souci Parkway, road in NE Pennsylvania

Buildings and structures

Houses

  • Sans Souci, a plantation in Caernarvon, Louisiana
  • Sans Souci, Mumbai, the palatial house of David Sassoon, now the Masina Hospital
  • Davenport House (New Rochelle, New York), also known as "Sans Souci", an NRHP gothic-revival estate in New Rochelle, New York
  • Sans Souci (Hillsborough, North Carolina), a house in Hillsborough, North Carolina

Palaces

  • Sans-Souci Palace, a once royal palace erected in Cap Haitian by Henry I, King of Haiti, in early 19th century
  • Sanssouci, the former summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, in Potsdam, Germany
  • Bogor Palace, West Java, Indonesia, in colonial times also called Sans Souci

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • The Flute Concert of Sanssouci (1930), a German drama film
  • "Sans Souci", a 1828 poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Sans Souci, a hotel in the fictional seaside town of Leahampton in Agatha Christie's mystery novel N or M?

Music

  • Sans Souci (album), 2003 album by Australian band Frenzal Rhomb
  • "Sanssouci" (song), a song by Rufus Wainwright, from his album Release the Stars
  • "Sans Souci", a composition by Sonny Burke and Peggy Lee on the 1989 album The Peggy Lee Songbook: There'll Be Another Spring
  • "Sans Souci", the alma mater song of Columbia College, Columbia University, New York City; see Stand, Columbia

Theatres

  • Sans Souci Theatre, London, 1796–1830s
  • Sans Souci Theatre (Calcutta), India, 1839–1849

People

  • Emery J. San Souci, governor of Rhode Island in 1921
  • Robert D. San Souci (1946–2014), American author and folklorist
  • Jean-Baptiste Sans Souci (died 1803), leader of rebel slaves during the Haitian Revolution
  • George SanSouci, American pool player
  • Armand G. Sansoucy (1910–1983), American politician from Maine
  • Brigitte Sansoucy, 21st-century Canadian politician
  • Sans Souci, pseudonym of American author Nelly Nichol Marshall (1845–1898)

Other uses

  • Sans Souci Cabaret, a nightclub near Havana, Cuba
  • USS Sans Souci II, a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919
  • Sans Souci Girls' High School, Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Sans Souci, an Italian pale lager brand owned by Heineken International
  • Sans Souci Parkway, a road connecting Nanticoke and Wilkes-Barre in Hanover Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
  • Sans Souci is a restaurant in Season 1, Episode 12 "Capitol Offense" (Murder, She Wrote)

See also

  • San Soucis, a town on the island of St. Lucia