Domaine Adolphe-Chérioux, Heritage estate in Vitry-sur-Seine, France

Domaine Adolphe-Chérioux is an estate in Vitry-sur-Seine that spreads across a large area along Route de Fontainebleau. The ensemble features brick and concrete buildings organized as a campus with classrooms, dormitories, and other institutional structures.

The orphanage project for the Seine department was studied from 1906 but delayed by the First World War. The 36-hectare site, previously occupied by nursery gardeners, was bought in December 1919 and built by architects Jules Lavirotte and Henri Gautruche. The boys' boarding school opened in 1932, the girls' in 1936, when the school housed 1,214 children.

The estate bears the name of Adolphe Chérioux, founder of the departmental orphanage at the start of the 20th century. Since its creation the grounds have served as a filming location: the final scene of La Guerre des boutons (1962) was shot in a dormitory later used by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann, and Climax by Gaspar Noé was filmed here in 2018.

The campus is not open to casual visitors; access is for pupils, students and staff. It is served by tram line 7 at the Domaine Chérioux stop, which connects with metro line 7, and by buses 132 and 185. The grounds lie at the border of Vitry-sur-Seine, L'Haÿ-les-Roses and Villejuif.

The campus has been a filming location since its orphanage years: the final scene of La Guerre des boutons (1962) was shot in a dormitory later used by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann, a former pupil, for Les Fautes d'orthographe (2004). Climax by Gaspar Noé was filmed here in 2018.