It is listed as a monument historique, located on Place Saint-Sulpice in the 6th arrondissement of Paris.

A new seminary financed two-thirds by the State, one-third by the city, was rebuilt to the south of the square from 1820 to 1838 on the plans of the City architect Étienne-Hippolyte Godde for the Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpicereestablished by Louis XVIII on April 3, 1816.

The 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State led to the evacuation in December 1906 of the seminary which was assigned to the Fine Arts administration to create a museum of living artists which was not built.

[3]: 347 The building includes four buildings, ground floor and three floors, inspired by Italian palaces, with a massive and austere appearance, around an interior courtyard forming a cloister.

A chapel dedicated to the Virgin with stained glass windows and a coffered ceiling, located perpendicular to the southern body of the building (opposite the facade on the square), is an administrative premises that is not accessible.