Love these little 'green' garret windows at the top of this apartment block in the 10th arrondissement of the city. Garrets were/are small and sometimes dismal one room accommodation with shared toilet facilities in the attic space of large residential buildings which would have been used by servants. Nowadays,with floorspace at a premium in the city,many have been sold off to property developers who will buy multiple units to create a larger living space.
From Wikipedia: The word 'garret' entered Middle English through Old French with a military connotation of watchtower, garrison or billet – a place for guards or soldiers to be quartered in a house. Like garrison, it comes from an Old French word garir of ultimately Germanic origin meaning "to provide" or "defend".
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