Perhaps you can hear outside my window that the rain is falling very hard in Paris right now,

which is quite a coincidence because I'm about to be talking about when the rain really floods Paris over.

Yes, every year there's a lot of rain in the city and sometimes the Sen River rises even a little tiny bit, imperceptibly.

A couple times in the past decade,

the Sen has truly flooded over and made world headlines,

but the one flood to rule them all was 1910,

when the water reached so high that life as everyone knew it

in the modern city of Paris

changed seemingly forever.

This is an episode about the floods of Paris.

You're going to hear the voice of Jeffrey Jackson, who wrote a book called Paris Underwater

How the City of Light survived the Great Flood of 1910,

and you're going to hear a little bit about

how to do your own scavenger hunt to find the markers and the traces of this enormous flood

from over a hundred years ago in this city.

My name is Oliver G. This is the Airful Tower podcast and F is for Flood.

Now, excuse me why I find some shelter from the storm. Here comes some music from Pressmax and he says F is for Flood, but F is also for Frero, as in the French singer Jeremy Frero, whose song Sulu, which means underwater, I recorded for this week's podcast.

He is one half of the duo from Frereux de la Viga,

who gamed fame on the French version of the voice. I love the lyrics here that remind me

of our Paris floods with lines like underwater in this submerged world. What can emerge?

Side note, this is Oliver speaking now. A lot can can emerge we'll get back to that in a second

press continues and lyrics like people keep me afloat when will the rising waters come i also dug

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