droits de séjour

01:23 Mar 3, 2022 

this would be the same legal regime as when you rent a hotel room for a week.

You are definitely NOT a "resident", nor really a "normal/usual" occupier as this implies staying for a longer period.

14:27 Mar 2, 2022 

There really shouldn't be any need for clarification, but Jonathan has muddied the waters, and Phil has dived in like a hippopotamus. This contract regulating the holiday lets of a flat owned by the spouses has a clause in it which is COMPLETELY unrelated to the fact of a person having died. The clause involving this expression droits de séjour relates to the lessor of this flat, i.e. the couple, the husband of which has just died. The lessor has has the right to stay in the flat for a week during the "low season".

The expression "right to occupy" may turn out to be the right one, although I VERY much doubt it, as it is clear that the lessor in this case can only stay in the flat for one week (per year, obviously), AND..., if one reads the quoted text in the question, this clause also says that if for some reason a "spare week" in their own flat can't be found, the lettings company will actually arrange for a near identical flat to be provided for that "low season" week.

I.e. this is a repeating term of the lettings contract, to be enjoyed annually by whoever is the landlord. It *was* the couple, and now it is just the surviving spouse. Dead people don't take holidays.