You couldn't find a better place to stay in Paris! The area is incredibly central (five minutes' walk from Musee d'Orsay and just over the river from the Louvre), there are scores of beautiful shops and restaurants nearby. The flat is definitely spacious and very quiet, which is amazing given it's so central. On the negative side, the flat is in need of a thorough clean, some of the lights weren't working and the kitchen, although full of equipment and countless tea-pots, would really benefit from a simple kettle! Francois' brother met us on arrival - unfortunately he couldn't answer any of our questions about the area and didn't give us any information about the flat. There wasn't a fob key to let us into the main door, so we had to go through the underground car-park, which in normal circumstances wouldn't have been a problem but one of our party had problems walking so it wasn't a great start. (For the record, we were provided with a fob key and an additional key the next day.) The departure didn't go as smoothly as we would have liked - initially we were asked to leave by 9 am on the day of departure, we managed to negotiate a later departure time of 10 am but it would have suited us much better if we could have stayed till noon (which in the end it turned out we could have done but by that time we had left the flat). Lesson learnt - negotiate a departure time earlier on. It would have been really helpful to have some kind of folder left in the flat, with information about local restaurants, supermarkets, location of taxi ranks, how to operate the heating system etc.