This apartment is perfect for an artist or writer… After a nice hot bath each night, i closed the bedroom windows to block out the noise from the late-night dance club next door, drank a glass of desert wine, and slept like a baby... Across the street is a modest park, named after the notorious turn-of-the-century poetesse Renée Vivien... Nearby, at Le Café des Chats, you can dine with a dozen rescued cats. Close by on Rue Rambuteau is Le Potager du Marais, a cozy vegetarian restaurant. A relaxed lunch or dinner awaits you at Le Sévigné, across from Parc Royal... What a shame that more of his guests don’t get a chance to meet Gilles in person, because emails cannot do justice to such an easy going and sunny personality… Learn as much French as you can and read "Le Flâneur", by Edmund White, before you go and lose yourself in Paris...