I landed in Paris on a cold evening from California, very cold. I took the RERb directly to Saint Michel and alighted onto the streets of Paris like climbing out of dungeon. It was spectacular. I walked passed Shakespeare and Co. and the Notre Dame and found angel faced Corto leaning against the front door of the building waiting for me looking like James Dean. The loft was all I needed on this trip to Paris. It was too cold out in the mornings to do my usual photography walks in the dawn light so I hit the books stalls around the loft and read in the mornings until it warmed up in that wonderful bed with a view overlooking the roofs of Paris in the day and the twinkling lights of the top of the Eiffel Tower at night. I shopped at the wonderful bakeries, cheese, wine and vegetable markets a very short walk away and cooked simple, but delicious meals when I did not feel like going out. I watched Leonardo DiCaprio speaking French in Inception one cold and rainy evening on the flat screen. There was a heater in the living room, but I found the heater in the bathroom heated the whole loft nice and toasty. From the loft I was able to walk through the Marais to the Pere Lachaise Cemetary and also a took a long walk on my last day along the Seine to the Eiffel Tower. I have been to Paris several times before and the Latin Quarter is by far my favorite area to stay in. I spent six wonderful nights in that loft and it was the best time I have ever had in Paris. I have always loved Paris and this time it loved me back. Merci Corto.