This hidden gem, a former residence of French nobility, sits in the middle of an authentic Montpellier neighborhood, just off the beaten tourist track. Ground floor rooms open up into a small shady courtyard, and hav e their own patios; rooms upstairs have little balconies. Thoroughly renovated only recently, it deserves three, if not four stars -- is is the lack of an elevator that brought the classification down? Excellent breakfast indoors or outdoors, good wifi, spacious modern bathrooms, and everywhere the sense that you are transported into an imagined era of style and elegance...