Unrecognized contractual commitments (excluding Orange Bank) - Commitments relating to securities (Details) - shares	Dec. 18, 2019	May 20, 2009
Investec [member] \| Orange Tunisie [member]
Disclosure of unrecognized contractual commitments [line items]
Percentage of additional share capital that can be purchased under a call option		1.00%
Number of additional shares over the percentage of additional share capital that can be purchased under a call option		1
Percentage of additional share capital that minority interest may sell to the entity if call option is exercised		15.00%
Groupama [member] \| Orange Bank [member]
Disclosure of unrecognized contractual commitments [line items]
Percentage of additional equity the entity may acquire if put option is exercised	20.00%

- Definition

The number of additional shares over the percentage of additional share capital that can be purchased under a call option.

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Line items represent concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes of the table.

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- Definition

The percentage of additional equity that the entity may acquire if put option is exercised.

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- Definition

The percentage of additional share capital that the minority interest may sell to the entity if call option is exercised.

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- Definition

The percentage of additional share capital that can be purchased under a call option.

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