Welcome to the 28th Chapel of Notre Dame cathedral. The other 27 are inside the Catholic grand edifice. This one is nestled within its shadow, a spiritual though secular mini museum paying tribute to the Grande Dame as she is restored once again from earthly calamity. This apartment doesn't just reflect history, it is history, on a pathway of a millennium, rue Galande, you will walk on stones in which the French revolutionaries and Victor Hugo are in the more recent chapters. The view when you open the windows for morning air is humbling.
Michel is more a curator than a host. All of the furniture and fascinating artifacts that surround you are carefully selected and in deliberate harmony with the ancient beams of the ceiling. Because of light sensitivity, I asked him to bring an extra small lamp. When he asked me if it was an emergency I said only in an anesthetic sense. When I returned after coffee an hour later, two period piece lamps had appeared. I was in mood lighting heaven.
Your memories of Notre Dame will of course endure to your final days. If you see it from this apartment, so shall it.