The house is read from Paris. Everything else follows from there.
Paris is where the house keeps its address and its silence. Conversations begin here, often in a room no one else knows about, and end here when the matter is closed.
What is asked for in Paris is rarely introduction alone. It is judgement: whom to see, in what order, and what should never be said in writing.
Appointments are held in person, by prior arrangement, and never on a schedule that belongs to someone else.