Ancien palais abbatial de Remiremont, abbot's palace in Remiremont, France

The Ancien palais abbatial de Remiremont is a stone building erected in the mid-1700s that stands beside the Church of Saint-Pierre in the heart of the canonical quarter. The structure displays three distinct facades: one fan-shaped facing a private garden, another overlooking the Abbey Square, and a third facing another square with a courtyard and an old ice storage room used to preserve food.

The earliest mention of an abbatial residence at Remiremont dates from 1384, when canonesses wrote of a fire that damaged the abbatial house and church. Abbess Catherine de Lorraine had the residence rebuilt entirely in 1616; a manuscript describes a single-storey square building facing the rue des Prêtres, with a large hall for chapter assemblies. The present palace, now housing the town hall, was inscribed as a monument historique on 31 May 1965.

The palace now houses Remiremont's town hall, standing in the canonical quarter where canonesses' houses and the gate of the former Sainte-Béatrix hospital still line the streets. The abbess held temporal rights over the town; in 1070 Abbess Gisèle obtained a diploma from Emperor Henry IV at Mantua placing the abbey under his immediate protection. The iron fence panels in front of the building carry heart motifs.

The palace now houses the town hall, so the interior is not open as a museum. Visitors can walk around the exterior at any time and see the facades, courtyard and garden from the public squares. The building stands next to the Notre-Dame church in the canonical quarter.

The complex preserves an original ice storage room that once kept food cool during winter months. This storage chamber reveals the practical solutions the local elite used for food preservation before modern refrigeration existed.