Already noted: We are in an unusual apartment, here on the edge of the Marais.

Angels on the wall; a bathing area where a person cannot stand; low, skull-threatening beams throughout the washroom, a tiny toilet room.

And perhaps the smallest elevator in Paris. Or in France.

If a building somewhere in the City of Light has an elevator smaller than the one in this edifice, I do not want to ride in it. I am vaguely claustrophobic, and anything smaller than this would engage that phobia.

There are dumbwaiters bigger than this elevator — horizontally, anyway. Lots of them.

The dinky one here is irregularly shaped (a trapezoid, I believe), as well as really small.

My estimate is that it is 28 inches across, at the back of elevator; maybe 18 inches deep along the left side (facing the elevator) and perhaps 15 inches deep along the right side. The front of the elevator angles, losing depth as it goes to the right.

What makes it worse is that it is the typical two-door Parisian elevator.

That is, you don’t just open a door, get in and go.

You open a door, get in, wait for the first door to close, then push a button for a floor — but nobody moves until the inner, accordion-like safety door, slides shut.

And when the folded-up sides are moving, contact with a shoe is enough to halt it. Meaning the passenger(s) have to squish closer to the far wall, and the depth of the elevator is, for those moment, more like 12 inches, on the right side.

Any two adults placed in the elevator will be significantly inside each other’s personal space, as measured in the West.

The elevator is rated for “2 personnes” or 180 kilos, about 400 pounds. I’ve never seen a lower rating than that one.

Trying to take something with you, in the elevator, is an issue if it is bigger than a single grocery bag. A modern baby stroller, even folded up, barely fit inside with an adult human.

Trying to move furniture in that thing would be pretty much impossible. Everything in this room was either carried about five flights of unusually steep stairs … or somehow swung in through one of the windows on the street.

I should note, too, that the outer door  of the elevator is particularly narrow. No more than 24 inches in width, and maybe less, losing space to the operating panel.

The narrow door makes for a fairly high amount of force needed to push open, when attempting to exit — because you do not have the advantage of pushing on a longer “lever”.

And the final down side?

The elevator, on each floor, opens onto a very small landing. (Presumably, the rest of the landing space was taken away for the installation of the elevator.)

Immediately ahead and to the right of the landing is the first step down a curving staircase. Anyone who has forgotten that and, perhaps off balance from pushing open the door, takes a step too far forward or to the right, could find themselves tumbling down the stairs.

Basically, you have to consider a lot of options before you pop into this elevator, with the first one being: Is the bulk I am about to put into this miniature elevator going to fit?

A memorable elevator, anyway.

And if it should get stuck between floors?

I prefer not to think about it.