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Maison Souquet
The hotel on rue de Bruxelles in April 2026. The two red lanterns mark the entrance.
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About Maison Souquet
A 20-room five-star hotel near place Blanche and the Moulin Rouge, decorated by Jacques Garcia to recall a Belle Époque brothel, with a private pool that each guest can book for an hour a day.
Best for
- Couples who want a small, theatrical hotel near the Moulin Rouge and Pigalle.
- Travellers who want a private pool and spa treatments without leaving the hotel.
Know before you book
The hotel's website does not give check-in and check-out times, and says nothing about lifts, step-free access, pets, parking or children, so ask before booking. Room occupancy and bed sizes are not published.
- The hotel
- 20 rooms and suitesEach named after a courtesan.
- Salon d'Eau
- One private hour a dayA pool, hammam and treatment room for each guest.
- The salons
- Open until 1 amBreakfast, lunch, tea, dinner and cocktails.
Maison Souquet is at 10 rue de Bruxelles in the 9th arrondissement, a short walk from place Blanche and the Moulin Rouge at the foot of Montmartre. The nearest Métro station is Blanche (line 2), about 150 metres away, followed by Place de Clichy (lines 2 and 13).
The decorator Jacques Garcia designed the interiors to recreate a maison close, or licensed brothel, which the hotel says operated in the house from 1905. The 14 Deluxe rooms and 6 Junior Suites are each named after a courtesan of the period, among them La Païva, Liane de Pougy and La Belle Otero. Each is decorated in a Chinese, Indian, Japanese or Napoleon III style.
There is no restaurant. Food and drink are served in three salons, from breakfast at 7 am through lunch, tea and dinner until 1 am, with cocktails from 5 pm. Residents can use the salons at any time. The Salon d'Eau holds a 10-metre pool under a blue vault painted with gold stars, with a hammam and a treatment room. Each guest can have it privately for one hour a day at no extra charge, and non-residents can book it for €200 an hour.
Choose the right fit
Rooms at a glance
Compare the hotel’s room categories, then confirm your preferred configuration and dates directly with the hotel.
01 / ROOM CATEGORY
Deluxe Room
16–18 m² · double bed · bathtub or walk-in shower
Room details
Fourteen rooms, each named after a courtesan, such as Apollonie, Cléo or Hortense.
02 / ROOM CATEGORY
Junior Suite
26–30 m² · double bed · living area and writing desk
Room details
Six suites: La Belle Otero, La Castiglione, and two each named for La Païva and Liane de Pougy. The hotel gives 26 to 28 m² on its overview and 30 m² on the suite page.
03 / ROOM CATEGORY
Two-Bedroom Suite
55 m² · two connected Junior Suites
Room details
Formed by joining the two La Païva suites or the two Liane de Pougy suites.
The practical details
Amenities & guest services
- Salon d'Eau with pool and hammam
- Massages and facials
- 24-hour room service
- Three salons and a bar
- Concierge
- Luggage service
- Laundry and pressing
Breakfast
Served in the salons from 7 am to 11 am.
Spa treatments
Massages of 55 or 90 minutes, facials and a Maison Souquet ritual are booked in advance, with slots between 8 am and 8 pm.
Day use
Deluxe rooms and Junior Suites can be booked for the day, from 11 am to 4 pm or from 5 pm to 11:45 pm.
PhotographThe Paris Atlas · Beyond the booking
History & cultural connections
The history of 10 rue de Bruxelles
Rue de Bruxelles, named after the Belgian capital, was one of five streets laid out on the site of the Tivoli gardens, a pleasure park that operated from 1730 to 1842. The streets were ordered in 1841, and building began in 1844.[1][2]
Paris trade directories list a hotel at 10 rue de Bruxelles by 1900. From 1907 to 1911 they call it the Hôtel de Belgique and name its keeper as Souquet, the name the present hotel has taken. By 1913 the Hôtel de Belgique had a new keeper, and it was still listed under that name in 1928.[3][4][5][6]
The hotel says that the house was a maison close, a licensed brothel run by a Madame Souquet, and that it opened in 1905 and was entered in the official register of licensed brothels. The Paris trade directories of 1907 to 1911 list a hotel keeper named Souquet at 10 rue de Bruxelles but do not mention a brothel.[7][8][4]
Yoni Aïdan and Sylviane Sanz, who already owned Maison Athénée, a hotel near the Opéra Garnier, opened Maison Souquet in mid-January 2015, with interiors by Jacques Garcia. The hotel says the decoration of one of its lounges, the Salon of a Thousand and One Nights, was made in 1895 for a Belgian aristocrat's house in Brussels and adapted to fit the building.[9][10]
Émile Zola lived further along the street, at 21 bis rue de Bruxelles, from 1889 until his death in 1902.[2]
Sources for this history
- 1.Ville de Paris open data — street names and origins (rue de Bruxelles)
- 2.Ville de Paris open data — protected buildings of the local urban plan, 21–21 bis and 23 rue de Bruxelles (Tivoli gardens; Zola's house)
- 3.Paris-adresses, 1900 — "Zumstein, hôtel, Bruxelles, 10" (Gallica)
- 4.Paris-adresses, 1907 — "Souquet, hôtel de Belgique, Bruxelles, 10" (Gallica); the same entry appears in the Didot-Bottin directories of 1909 and 1911
- 5.Annuaire du commerce Didot-Bottin, 1913 — "Cancelier, hôtel de Belgique, r. de Bruxelles, 10" (Gallica)
- 6.Annuaire du commerce Didot-Bottin, 1928 — "Belgique (de), r. de Bruxelles, 10" (Gallica)
- 7.Maison Souquet — official homepage (the maison close of 1905)
- 8.Maison Souquet — the house and its decoration
- 9.Le Figaro — "Maison Souquet, le dernier écrin coquin" (6 January 2015)
- 10.Maison Souquet — the salons
See where you’ll be
Paris, just outside the door
Places to discover nearby
nightclub · Pigalle
Moulin Rouge
Where Colette's 1907 mime with her lover Mathilde de Morny set off a riot and was banned by the police — her most notorious Paris performance.
Explore this place
school · Montmartre (18th)
Atelier Cormon, 104 boulevard de Clichy
The open studio of the academic painter Fernand Cormon, on the ground floor at 104 boulevard de Clichy, where Vincent van Gogh worked from March 1886 alongside Toulouse-Lautrec, Émile Bernard and Louis Anquetin.
Explore this place
square · Clichy — Montmartre's edge
Place de Clichy
The crossroads where four arrondissements collide — and where Louis-Ferdinand Céline opens Journey to the End of the Night at a café table, with a recruitment parade passing and his narrator Bardamu jumping up to join the war.
Explore this placeBefore you go
Useful questions, clear answers
Where is Maison Souquet?
The hotel is at 10 rue de Bruxelles, 75009 Paris, near place Blanche and the Moulin Rouge. Blanche Métro station (line 2) is about 150 metres away.
Was Maison Souquet really a brothel?
The hotel says so, dating the maison close to 1905. Paris directories of 1907 to 1911 list a hotel keeper named Souquet here, running the Hôtel de Belgique, but they do not mention a brothel.
Can guests use the pool?
Yes. Each guest can book the Salon d'Eau, with its pool and hammam, privately for one hour a day at no extra charge.
Does the hotel have a restaurant?
Not as such. Breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner are served in the salons until 1 am, and the bar opens at 5 pm.
Can non-guests visit?
Yes. The salons open to non-residents from 7 am, and non-residents can book the Salon d'Eau for €200 an hour.
Who decorated the hotel?
The French decorator Jacques Garcia, who also decorated Maison Athénée and Maison Proust for the same founders.
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Sources & image credits
Hotel information reviewed .
Hotel information & sources
Image credits
Illustrations and reconstructions are labelled throughout this page.
- The hotel on rue de Bruxelles in April 2026. The two red lanterns mark the entrance.Tangopaso, public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsSource & reference
- The Salon d'Eau, with its pool and painted ceiling, photographed for the hotel in 2015.Eric Antoine, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSource & reference
- A room at Maison Souquet, photographed for the hotel in 2015.Eric Antoine, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSource & reference
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