Circa 1900 Maison de Maître in the Heart of Secret France — €950,000
Tucked into the soft green rise of the Vosges Saônoises, this circa 1900 maison de maître sits on just over four acres of private parkland. It’s not a château, not a country farmhouse, but something in between: the quiet confidence of French bourgeois architecture without the pretense.
Located in La Longine, a tiny commune at the edge of eastern France’s lake-strewn highlands, the manor is part of a region locals call La Petite Finlande—a reference to its misty woodlands and endless étangs. You won’t find Michelin-starred restaurants or luxury spas here (though Luxeuil-les-Bains is half an hour away). What you get instead: silence, history, and a lot of house.
Inside, expect scale. Fifteen rooms, seven bedrooms, soaring ceilings, oak staircases, and the kind of mirrors and moldings that don’t need to beg for attention. It’s the kind of place that lets you live among texture and time—sculptural fireplaces, original herringbone parquet, and ironwork that hasn’t been fussed with.
Outside, the “garden” reads more like a private park: 16,620 square meters of old-growth trees, a stream at the edge, and the kind of natural screening that ensures no one’s seeing in—or out. A pool and terrace round out the essentials.
The catch? There isn’t one. At €950,000, this is less than a 2-bed flat in the Marais. But that’s kind of the point. If you know, you know.
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