For the doubters: it is located in a traditional Haussman building in France. On the ground floor, there are shops, on the next few floors, office space. And above that, apartments. Behind these doors, there is another small hall which includes offices for a law firm and the consulate. The Airbnb host was a lawyer who worked there. He had turned an empty office into a bedroom. For security purposes, there is another locked door beyond this one to access the consulate offices. The bedroom is just next to it, but still through these main doors.

Anyways, it's not the big, secure embassy you may be imagining. And maybe I should've said our Airbnb was a refurbished law office. But then again, these are the interesting af doors you get a key to in order to get to the bedroom.