Chemin de Fer

Chemin de fer is the French term for railway. It may refer to:

  • Musée français du chemin de fer, the French National Railway Museum
  • Baccarat Chemin de fer, a variation of the card game, Baccarat
  • one of several railway companies in Europe
  • one of several railway companies in Canada
  • Le chemin de fer (Alkan), Op. 27, an étude composed by Charles-Valentin Alkan in 1844
  • Étude aux chemins de fer, the seminal 1948 composition of electronic music, specifically musique concrète, by Pierre Schaeffer, constructed from railway sounds
  • a poem by Elizabeth Bishop, from her first book North and South
  • a play by Georges Feydeau, French playwright and a precursor to the dada movement