Sans Souci Explained

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

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
• "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