This is a wonderful apartment, compact yet comfortable and spacious. The hosts have designed the apartment with taste as well as efficiency. The location is superb, with excellent markets nearby as well as very good bakeries, cheese shops, buthcers, bars, and restaurants. The juxtaposition between the nineteenth-century apartments on the boulevard and the maze of medieval streets behind them (where René Descartes lived, as well as Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce) produces a concentrated encounter with the Parisian cityscape at every walk. The hosts are conscientious and kind, answering messages quickly and precisely, usually within an hour. We stayed in the apartment for a month and would gladly have continued living there longer. Highly recommended.