Fascinating French History

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

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

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Hi everyone!

France has a fascinating history and there aren't many people who appreciate it as much as today's guest, Diana from The Land of Desire Podcast.

She shares some of her favourite stories, tips, and hidden Paris treasures that she has picked up while making her amazing show.

And, as promised, here's a link with more information about the "undercover restorers" who fixed a landmark clock in Paris.

Here's a link to the official website of The Land of Desire.

Support the Earful on Patreon here.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. You are listening to the Earful Tower podcast. My name is Oliver G. This show is brought
0:06.2	to you by French Today audiobooks to help you learn French. More on them at the end of the episode,
0:11.1	but I'll tell you now, if you go to Frenchtaday.com forward slash earful 6, you're going to get a 10%
0:16.8	a further 10% discount of all your language learning audio books there. But we'll get back to
0:22.5	them at the end of the episode. And before I get into this episode with Diana from the Land of
0:26.9	Desire, the podcaster, I want to share a bit of news, some big news even about the Earful Tower
0:33.2	podcast. And that is that just last night, so I was sitting in a beautiful little hotel in Pagal called
0:41.0	and I recommend this to you all. It's called Hotel Amour, which means the love hotel. No, it's not
0:46.2	that kind of hotel. Not the kind of hotel you'll find 100 meters further up in the red light district
0:51.3	of Pagal. No, no, no. This is just a beautiful little, there's a bar
0:56.1	downstairs that's out in the garden. Really beautiful as long as not too many people are smoking
1:00.3	and they weren't and I was in there having a lovely apparel spritz with my lovely wife and
1:05.4	I checked my phone and what did I see that since the Eiffel has begun, as of last night, there have been
1:12.4	500,000 downloads. That's half a million downloads, which for me is incredible. I don't know,
1:19.3	maybe you're the kind of person who's impressed by a million downloads. Me, I can't believe it.
1:23.0	Two years in, 500,000 downloads, and I'm over the moon. It means people are out there listening. I've
1:28.4	managed to turn this into a job and this is the kind of news I think needs to be celebrated.
1:33.3	So what I'm going to do is launch season six today. You are now listening to Season 6 of the
1:39.1	Yearful Tower and what I'm going to do, I mean it doesn't really mean anything tangible
1:43.6	in terms of the show
1:45.0	that will change, but there will be one change, and that's going to be two episodes a week,
1:51.3	Monday and Thursday. Hey, it's a job now, let's get into it. Monday, Thursday, episodes of the
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