The beautiful pictures you see online of the apartment do not unfortunately reflect reality. It does not appear that the apartment was "recently renovated". It needs to be updated and deep-cleaned. It is overlooking a courtyard but the space is shared with neighbors and therefore not at all private. The bed in the alcove and the sofa bed are fairly uncomfortable. The dishwasher does not work. Coffee cups are stained or chipped. The sofa bed sheets have holes in them. The most serious issue, however, was with the shower. 2 out of 3 buttons did not work and so the water only came out of part of the shower head. There was only enough hot water for a quick shower (my wife ran out of hot water before she could get the shampoo out of her hair and I had to literally bring hot water into the bathroom from the kitchen in a pot). The shower one night mysteriously turned itself on in the middle of the night making a racket. We got in touch immediately with Philippe to express our disappointment. He was very responsive and agreed to give us a partial refund so that the actual price of the stay would better reflect the apartment's condition. To end this comment on a positive note, it is indeed located in a quiet and nice neighborhood, not far from rue Mouffetard and only 10 minutes away from a couple of subway stations. If updated and repaired it could eventually become a nice place for a couple for a short stay (the place is really too small for any more than two people), but until it is, we could not recommend it in its present state.