The Embassy of France to the Czech Republic (Czech: Francouzské velvyslanectví v Praze) is in Velkopřevorské náměstí, Malá Strana, Prague, near Kampa Island in the River Vltava.^[1] It occupies the baroque Buquoy Palace [cs], which was originally built in 1667 and then altered during the 18th century. The ground floor of the embassy was flooded during the August 2002 floods.^[1]