Located at the tip of the small hamlet of Cabasson in the locality of Bormes-les-Mimosas in the Var department, the Fort de Brégançon became one of the official residences of the presidents of the French Republic in 1968 on a proposal from General de Gaulle. Subsequently, all the heads of state of the Fifth Republic stayed there more or less durably, with the exception of Charles de Gaulle himself, who spent only one night in the fort in 1964. Since his decision, the Fort de Brégançon has successively welcomed Georges Pompidou, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, François Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy, François Hollande, and Emmanuel Macron.