Your Apartment in Paris at
Rue Bernard Palissy
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YOUR APARTMENT
One bedroom apartment in older building. Very comfortable for two
(1 double bed) but can sleep a 3rd person on a convertible couch in the living
room. 1st floor walk-up, no elevator. (50m² -- 500 sq.ft)
This is a charming, one bedroom apartment on a quiet small street off the famous Saint Germain des Près area. The apartment itself is very clean and well furnished with a large living room and dining room area. There is an open, fully equipped kitchen with a bar counter overlooking the living area.
Although the bedroom is small, it is bright and cheerful and has recently been redecorated. There are modern bedside lamps and a mirror-fronted closet.
The bathroom has a shower unit only; however, it has a strong jet and there is constant hot water.
The living room overlooks a charming ivy covered courtyard - very provincial in aspect with window shutters on the other apartments which unobtrusively share this open courtyard space.
EXTRAS: Colour television, radio with CD and cassette player, washing machine, telephone answering machine.
YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD: This is in the middle of the classic part of the St Germain des Près area, one block off the Blvd. St Germain, between the rue de Rennes and the rue du Dragon, so you'll have all the shopping, stores, boutiques, and everything you'll need close at hand. As you are in the 6th, on the edge of the 7th Arrondissement, you will be able to wander over the St Germain streets with all their surprises.
Close by are the legendary cafés; the Brasserie Lipp, the Deux Magots and its rival, the Café Flore. And if you're really a foodie, you'll enjoy other St Germain restaurants such as Jacques Cagna, one of France's best known chefs down towards the river on the rue des Grands Augustins. Cross the Blvd. Saint Germain, take a right and go down the Blvd. about three blocks to the rue de Buci, turn left and just kind of wander from there. You'll be amazed at what you'll find on these little streets.
Remember to find the rue Mazet just off the rue Dauphine and the rue St André des Arts, and you can come in the back door of le Procope, the oldest café in Paris where Voltaire wrote and where the French Revolution was plotted. If you go up the rue de Rennes to the Vieux Colombier and turn left, you'll walk on to the place St Sulpice with its famous church which was started in 1646, and truly has never been completed (note the south tower is unfinished). There is also lots to see further east in the Latin Quarter.
METRO STATIONS: St. Germain des Près, St Sulpice, Mabillon, Sevres-Babylon
BUSES: 39, 48, 63, 70, 86, 94, 95, 96