Première dame d'honneur ('First lady of honour'), or only dame d'honneur ('lady of honour'), was an office at the royal court of France. It existed in nearly all French courts from the 16th-century onward. Though the task of the post shifted, the dame d'honneur was normally the first or the second rank of all ladies-in-waiting. The dame d'honneur was selected from the members of the highest French nobility.