A very deep dive into Notre Dame

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Let's go deep on the Notre Dame cathedral.

Our guest: Boris Petrovic, who has just published a series of historical essays on Notre Dame.

His books are a series of seven, which you can buy one by one or in a heavyweight tome, all the information is here.

You can also book Boris for a walking tour of Notre Dame here.

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Music: Pres Maxson.

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0:00.0	Hello, earful tower. Listeners, today you're going to be hearing from Boris Petrovich, a Serbian tour guide and author in Paris,
0:07.9	who's just penned a volume of books called Fiat Looks based on Notre Dame. This is a deep dive into
0:16.4	Notre Dame, and I'll let Boris explain it to you. But first, a huge thank you to the Patreon supporters of this show and the
0:24.3	substack supporters. There's no sponsor right now. So without you guys, I don't even know what I would be
0:30.1	doing. I certainly wouldn't be sitting here doing a podcast. I'd probably be, oh, I don't even dare to think
0:35.3	about it. I thank you from the bottom of my heart, and I hope
0:38.5	you enjoy all the extras that come with supporting this show, including the PDF Guide to Paris
0:46.1	that you get upon sign up. The other thing I'll announce before we get going is tour season is
0:52.0	underway. I will be doing a lot of tours this summer personally. Mondays in
0:55.7	the Marais is my specialty, but I'm doing a lot of Latin quarter too. Check it out. I'll link to it
1:01.5	below the earfultower.com slash tours. We do more than that too. Speaking of tours, Boris does a good
1:07.3	one of Notre Dame. Let's hear what he has to say about his book,
1:11.7	the cathedral, and the symbolism behind it all.
1:15.3	Here we go.
1:26.8	Boris Petrovich. There you go. You nailed it.
1:29.3	Serbian, can we say intellectual?
1:31.3	You can, I don't mind. Are you French as well?
1:33.3	I am, yeah. So you're a Serbian, French. Can we say genius?
1:36.3	I wouldn't go that far.
1:38.3	You're a deep thinker though.
1:39.3	Yeah, I am, yeah.
1:40.3	I leave the genius part to the others, you know.
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