The esplanade laid out in the early eighteenth century, Hardouin-Mansart's dome, the Rodin museum gardens and the great avenues. We guide buyers and sellers here.
In 1670 Louis XIV signed the edict founding the Hôtel des Invalides, at the end of a Faubourg Saint-Germain still open ground. Libéral Bruant designed the whole, Jules Hardouin-Mansart gave it its dome. The esplanade followed, laid out from 1704 to 1720 to plans by Robert de Cotte, on the part of the Pré-aux-Clercs known as the Prés-Saint-Germain. Three centuries on, that drawing still holds: it is what gives the quarter its perspectives, its wide avenues and a light few parts of Paris possess.
Fine Haussmannian along avenue de Tourville, avenue de La Motte-Picquet and avenue de Lowendal, faubourg mansions behind. The principal floors offer reception rooms in enfilade that nothing replaces.
This is the quarter's signature. The eighteenth-century plan reserved open ground the city never closed: depending on floor and aspect, you see the dome, the esplanade or the rooftops. We measure that on site, never from a listing.
Ministries, embassies, museums — the Army museum, the Plans-Reliefs, the Order of the Liberation, and the Rodin museum with its three hectares of gardens around the Hôtel Biron. Neighbours who make no noise and never close.
A wealth-oriented clientele, French and international, looking for volume and a lasting address. Purchases here are made for the long term: turnover is among the lowest in Paris.
The esplanade runs from place des Invalides down to the quai d'Orsay, setting off the north front of the hôtel. To the east begins the Faubourg Saint-Germain with its seventeenth- and eighteenth-century mansions and its ministries; to the west, boulevard de la Tour-Maubourg separates the quarter from Gros-Caillou. The Rodin museum garden opens to the south. We cross floor, aspect and depth of perspective here — three variables that can only be read on site, and never together.
You cross the esplanade when you wake, take your coffee on avenue de Tourville, and the dome is there, gilded, at the end of the road.
Floor, aspect, view, lift, reception volume. In the 16th, two apartments in the same building are not lived in the same way.
Our network of owners, notaires and introducers tells us about properties before they are listed. At these addresses, most of it is settled in advance.
We visit, check true orientation, the quality of the building, how the floors are arranged and what the co-ownership allows.
Through to completion, with the same rigour as in the Pays Basque — one contact, from the first call to the handover of keys.
Because no prestige property comes down to an average. Two neighbouring houses on plots of identical size are not worth the same if one faces south and the other sits in shade. We assess exact location, orientation, plot, features and scarcity — a bespoke valuation, never a price grid.
It is a protection established by the Malraux law in 1962, and it is what preserved these façades and private mansions while other districts were transformed. In return it governs what may be altered — joinery, roofing, interior arrangements depending on the building. We check what applies to the exact address from the first conversation, so your project starts on solid ground.
Both, and that is what surprises people. The avenues are institutional, but the side streets hold food shops, bookshops and neighbourhood cafés. The market, the schools and the gardens do the rest, away from the flows that cross the neighbouring quarters.
It is one of our particularities: we are established in both territories. Whether your plans concern one, the other or both, you have the same adviser from first conversation to completion — which avoids mismatched timings and makes coordination far simpler.
One call is enough to frame your project in aux Invalides, whether buying or selling. We reply personally within 48 hours, in complete confidence.
07 86 71 33 13Les Invalides is one of the Paris addresses we work in. We cover many others — as far as the Pays Basque and Bordeaux — and we hold a certain idea of what this profession should be, better told elsewhere than on this page.
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