Our 2023 Paris Apartment

We arrived in Paris April 28th and took a taxi from CDG to our apartment (the rental agency pays for it!), 10 Rue Jean Bart, in the 6th, Rive Gauche, the first time we've had a longer stay on this side of the river. Our previous apartments (four) have been in the 2nd, 3rd, and 11th (twice), and we've done several weeks camping in the Bois de Boulogne over the years. As usual, our first days were moving in, getting to know the place, getting to know the environs. Happily, the Franprix grocery store is on the ground floor of our building. Two more groceries are on the street, and there are numerous cafes, restos, boulangeries, patisseries...all the usual suspects...on the nearby streets. We took many more walks, generally within a kilometer, just to get better oriented, to be posted later. 

Google Earth view...red dot in exact center...Luxembourg Park

is 250 steps away (Vicki counted) 

Rue Jean Bart...one of those streets that's exactly just
one block long; of course you know that Jean Bart was
a noted privateer and admiral during Louis XIV's reign;
the battleship Jean Bart was famously sunk by dive
bombers from the USS Ranger, in Casablanca's
harbor, during the American invasion of North Africa,
November, 1942; previous coverage on this blog, here

Only on our second day here did we notice that our building
is a genuine Art Deco beauty, dated 1930

Better view; so how cool is this? All our previous apartments have
been fairly non-descript, and we will nearly always go out of our way
to see fine art deco...and now we get to live in one!

Entrance; Jean Boucher and Leon Barriquand, architects,
P. F. Joyeux, sculptor, 1930

Numerous art deco accents and flourishes

In the entry

One of two elevators...could be 1930, but works!
We're on the second (European) floor

Second floor landing; all the hall lamps are torchieres...

Living room; some of the furniture is arguably art deco...

Bedroom

Bath

Alcove off the living room...study, retreat, 2nd bedroom

Kitchen; all updated, bath too, and AV/Internet systems; the rest
of it, not so much; more, and better pix are at the rental agency's
site; second listing down

Interestingly, there are four Maurice Martin original
paintings, not prints, in the apartment...hmmmm