Staying with Louis turned out to be an outstanding and amazing experience. His typical Parisian apartment was immaculate and very interesting with all of the art history books and paintings. I will attest to the fact that Louis is one of the kindest, interesting and gracious folks I have ever met. He also speaks perfect English having lived in the States. The block where he lives offers an outstanding cheese shop (Androuet), a Monoprix supermarket, a Chinese carryout resto, a boulangerie for morning croissants and a good wine store. His upscale street in the 16th (one of the fanciest districts in Paris) is very quiet and thankfully devoid of tourists.
The stay was amazing in that my connection with Louis was not seven degrees of separate, but two! In a country of 60 million plus Frenchmen, Louis knew quite well a family in Tours, France that I lived with 50 years earlier as a student. How amazing and totally memorable is that?
Louis is a font of knowledge regarding a wide range of subjects and an outstanding conversationalist. If you do engage him, you will walk away a more knowledgeable person. I feel lucky that I stumbled onto this situation and highly recommend others seek him out.