Electric socket comprising: - a socket body, at the bottom of which two female connection terminals are housed, - a well housed in said socket body and comprising openings arranged opposite said female connection terminals, - a front mounted in a longitudinally sliding manner in the well between a high position and a low position, said front comprising openings for passage of an male electric plug intended to be plugged into said female connection terminals when the front is in the low position, - a limiter extending radially from said front and configured to come into abutment against a stop fixedly attached to the well so as to limit the upwards movement of said front, - at least two elastic parts, each elastic part being configured to be able to be compressed during the movement of said front from said high position to the low position, under the effect of a force exerted by an operator plugging the male plug into said front, until it is in engagement with the female connection terminals, and to be able to facilitate the removal of the male plug by spontaneously moving said front from the low position to the high position, by the expansion of said elastic parts as soon as an operator dislodges the male plug from said female connection terminals, characterised in that the socket further comprises: - at least two lateral grooves (24, 26) for longitudinal guidance of the front, each lateral groove for longitudinal guidance comprising a high portion fixedly attached to said movable front and a low portion fixedly attached to the bottom of the well, arranged longitudinally opposite the high portion, - said elastic parts are each arranged in a guide groove (24, 26) and respectively fixedly attached to the high portion and to the low portion, extending between the high portion and the low portion and extending longitudinally between said front and the bottom of the well. - a socket body, at the bottom of which two female connection terminals are housed, - a well housed in said socket body and comprising openings arranged opposite said female connection terminals, - a front mounted in a longitudinally sliding manner in the well between a high position and a low position, said front comprising openings for passage of an male electric plug intended to be plugged into said female connection terminals when the front is in the low position, - a limiter extending radially from said front and configured to come into abutment against a stop fixedly attached to the well so as to limit the upwards movement of said front, - at least two elastic parts, each elastic part being configured to be able to be compressed during the movement of said front from said high position to the low position, under the effect of a force exerted by an operator plugging the male plug into said front, until it is in engagement with the female connection terminals, and to be able to facilitate the removal of the male plug by spontaneously moving said front from the low position to the high position, by the expansion of said elastic parts as soon as an operator dislodges the male plug from said female connection terminals, - at least two lateral grooves (24, 26) for longitudinal guidance of the front, each lateral groove for longitudinal guidance comprising a high portion fixedly attached to said movable front and a low portion fixedly attached to the bottom of the well, arranged longitudinally opposite the high portion, - said elastic parts are each arranged in a guide groove (24, 26) and respectively fixedly attached to the high portion and to the low portion, extending between the high portion and the low portion and extending longitudinally between said front and the bottom of the well.