Lavie Maison : Cozy AC Fontaine

Morning light fills the ground-floor windows, catching the clean lines of a space designed to work harder than its 29 square metres suggest.

A proper bedroom sits behind its own door — rare at this size — while the living room unfolds with a double sofa bed and single armchair for the extra guests. The kitchenette is fully equipped, the bathroom modern, and the air conditioning a quiet relief when Paris turns warm.

Outside, Auteuil keeps its village rhythms. The Marché d'Auteuil sets up twice a week on Place Jean-Lorrain, and the tree-lined streets lead to the Bois de Boulogne in one direction, the Trocadéro in the other.

This one suits a small family or friends who want a residential quartier with real neighbourhood life — and the Eiffel Tower close enough for an evening walk.

Step out and the 16e announces itself in small ways: the wide pavements of avenue Mozart, a woman walking two greyhounds past the boulangerie, the brass plaque of a notaire next to a fromagerie that still wraps in waxed paper. Limestone façades, balconies in wrought iron, and the rumble of the 9 line somewhere under your feet. Le quartier moves at its own tempo — unhurried, well-dressed, slightly bourgeois.

Le matin, head to the marché Passy on rue Bois-le-Vent (Tuesday, Friday, Saturday). It's covered, compact, and the rotisserie at the back sells a poulet fermier with potatoes cooked in the drippings underneath — order one for Sunday lunch and eat it in la cour with a bottle from the caviste on rue de l'Annonciation.