Lavie Maison : Charming Studio near Montmartre

Twenty square metres on the fourth floor, windows open, and the morning smells like butter from the boulangerie downstairs on Rue Guy Môquet.

The studio keeps things honest: a sofa bed for two, a proper little kitchen with stovetop and oven, wine glasses in the cupboard for whatever you bring home. Blackout curtains do their job when Paris asks you to stay another hour in bed.

Le quartier is the Batignolles edge of the 17e — residential, unhurried, with the rue des Moines market two streets away and line 13 at Guy Môquet putting Montmartre four stops north.

It suits a couple travelling light, or a solo guest who wants to live in Paris rather than visit it. What stays with you is the rhythm of the street below — local, lived-in, entirely yours for the week.

Step out and you're on the slope behind Montmartre, where the 17e quietens into something more domestic — the boulangerie on rue des Moines with its queue at 8h, the green Wallace fountain on place de Lévis, a butcher in a white apron sweeping his stretch of pavement before the morning rush.

For le marché, walk down rue de Lévis on a Tuesday or Saturday — a covered street market that's been feeding the Batignolles since the 1840s. Buy a rotisserie chicken from the stall halfway down, a baguette from any boulangerie that smells right, and eat lunch back at la maison.