A short stay
A week or more. Wake on Place Monsigny, walk your morning routes, hear the building breathe.
Live the address.
Privately Offered · Paris 2nd Arrondissement
Imagine — your address in the heart of Paris.
19 rue Monsigny. The kind of address you describe to friends back home — then watch them ask how soon they can visit. Three rooms, fully reimagined, opening onto one of the quietest squares between the Opéra and the Louvre.
The Residence
Not a second home. A private residence — ready the moment you turn the key.
Step inside, and you'll feel it immediately: the proportions of old Paris, the silence of a private square, the precision of a contemporary home. A Parisian architect redrew every surface — floor up, ceiling down — so that the moment you arrive, there is nothing left to imagine, nothing to repair, nothing to decide. Just turn the key, open the windows, and the city is yours.
97m² (1,044 sq ft) · Carrez
3Rooms
2Bedrooms
3eFloor · Elevator
3,50m (11.5 ft) Ceilings
2ndArr.
The Architect's Hand
Notice the details — they were drawn for you.
Walls in deep bleu d'encre, pale maple cabinetry rising from floor to ceiling, hand-set brass that catches the morning light. A wide steel-and-glass verrière opens the salon to the kitchen — the way Paris ateliers have done for a century, only quieter, warmer, and entirely yours.
- Newly laid point de Hongrie oak parquet
- Custom maple millwork with brass detailing
- Five-point reinforced entry door
- Wood double-glazed windows, exterior shutters
- Full-home reversible air-conditioning
- 3 m² (32 sq ft) private cellar (cave)
A French Hand
The small gestures — the ones you'll quietly love.
Two rooms tell the entire story. A dressing in light maple, drawn line by line, with brass inlays set by hand. An atelier verrière in steel and glass that turns morning sunlight into something almost editorial. This is the kind of French detail you won't find in a catalog — only here.
Film
See the residence in motion.
A short visual walk-through of the apartment and its neighborhood.
Two Baths · Quiet Rooms
Picture the morning. Slowly.
The primary bath is a small theatre of water and color — a sculptural tub set against hand-glazed cobalt, polished chrome catching the light. The second, in book-matched Calacatta marble and brushed brass, gives the guest bedroom its own en-suite sanctuary. Two rooms, two atmospheres — and the same quiet feeling each time you close the door.
- Primary suite · 17,5 m² (188 sq ft) · sculptural tub + dressing
- Second bedroom · 14,5 m² (156 sq ft) · en-suite Calacatta shower room
- Separate WC · laundry · custom storage
The Building
The kind of building you cross the courtyard of — and feel home.
Push the heavy door, hear it close behind you, and the city falls quiet. The façade was restored in 2017; the hall and stairwell, just after. The original iron-cage elevator still glides upward exactly as it did a hundred years ago — only now, it rises toward your apartment. A small, well-kept copropriété of 48 lots, discreet access, no surprises.
- BuiltLate 19th century
- Façade Refurbished2017
- ElevatorPeriod cage · preserved
- Floor3rd · Eastern exposure
- CellarIncluded · 3 m² (32 sq ft)
A Sense of Place
Step out the door — and Paris is already there.
Some addresses you reach. Others reach into the city for you. From your front door, the Opéra rises four minutes north; the Louvre, thirteen south. In between — the Tuileries, the passages couverts, the Seine. Not a commute. A morning walk.
- 2 minPassage Choiseul
- 4 minOpéra Garnier
- 7 minJardin du Palais-Royal
- 8 minPlace Vendôme
- 13 minMusée du Louvre
All on foot · from the front door.
Élégance à la française
The Paris most people only read about.
Close your eyes a moment. The gilded halls of the Opéra, the colonnades of the Palais-Royal, the glass-roofed passages where Balzac once walked and Colette once wrote — these are not postcards. They are the streets between your front door and your morning coffee.
You won't visit Paris from here. You'll live inside it.
The Neighborhood
Four minutes to the Opéra. Thirteen to the Louvre.
Rare, in Paris, to find a square that feels both central and quietly tucked away. Place Monsigny is one of them. Métro Quatre-Septembre opens at the foot of the building — a single line, four minutes to Opéra, eight to Châtelet, and the entire city follows.
At the foot of the building
Métro Quatre-Septembre · Line 3 — direct steps from the front door. Opéra · Saint-Lazare · Châtelet in minutes.
Your Corner Café
Your brasserie is downstairs. rue Monsigny
Picture this. On the corner of rue Monsigny, the Bistrot d’Edmond welcomes you from the first croissant at the zinc, to a long Parisian lunch on the terrace, to the candlelit dinner you didn’t plan, all the way to the last cocktail under the red awning and the garland of bulbs.
And little by little — the patron knows your order. Your guests will feel they have been coming here for years. It becomes, quite naturally, your café.
Open seven days a week · thirty steps from the lobby.
Specifications
At a glance.
The Property
- Address
- 19 rue Monsigny, 75002 Paris
- Surface (Carrez)
- 97 m² · 1,044 sq ft
- Rooms
- 3 · 2 bedrooms
- Ceiling Height
- 3,50 m · 11.5 ft
- Floor
- 3rd with elevator
- Exposure
- East — over Place Monsigny
- View
- Le Centorial · Haussmannian rooftops
- Outdoor
- Two windows on Place Monsigny
- Cellar
- 3 m² (32 sq ft) · included
Finishes & Comfort
- Renovation
- Architect-led · turnkey
- Air-Conditioning
- Reversible · throughout
- Flooring
- New point de Hongrie oak parquet
- Joinery
- Custom maple · brass inlays
- Kitchen / Salon
- Open via steel verrière
- Windows
- Wood double glazing · exterior shutters
- Security
- Five-point reinforced entry door
- Annexes
- Separate WC · laundry · storage
Financials
- Asking Price
- €1,395,000
- Per Surface Unit
- ~ €14,380 / m² (~ €1,335 / sq ft)
- Agency Fees
- None — sold directly by owner
- Monthly Charges
- €500 · co-ownership
- Co-ownership
- 48 lots · 3 attached to property
- Energy (DPE)
- D
- Status
- Available · move-in ready
- Best For
- Pied-à-terre · primary residence
An Exclusive Invitation
Live here — before you decide.
Discover the residence the way it was meant to be lived — for a week, a month, or an entire season. Our Try Before You Buy program lets qualified buyers experience 19 rue Monsigny as their own home, with rent fully credited against the purchase price upon agreement.
A real test
Rent applied to purchase. Walk your routes, claim the address, settle into the rhythm — then decide, in full clarity.
Zero risk.
A private process
Owner-to-buyer. No agency, no intermediaries — a quiet conversation, on your terms.
Direct & confidential.
Inquire about Try Before You Buy
Subject to qualification · furnished stay · 1 to 3 months
Privately Offered · No Agency Fees
€1,395,000 Directly from the owner
The next step is the simplest one : a private conversation. When you're ready, write a line or send a message — we'll arrange a viewing, or a longer Try Before You Buy stay, at the hour that suits you, in complete confidence.
Email
monsigny@proton.me
Property
19 rue Monsigny, 75002 Paris