How to be Parisian
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Hello everyone!
This week it's Caroline de Maigret, the author of How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are, the model, the music producer - and the ultimate Parisienne, if you ask me.
I saw her walking down the street in central Paris and I stopped her to ask if she would like to be on my show. She said "Yes, let's do it right now".
So we recorded the episode on my phone in a cafe in the ninth arrondissement. That will explain the background noise, the waiter interrupting, the coffee machine somewhere in the distance... in other words, the ambient sounds of Paris.
Hopefully you'll feel like you're sitting right there with us.
Caroline talks about being a Parisian woman, the freedom of Paris, and how pleasure is a key element of life in the French capital.
If you want to find more from Caroline, check out her Instagram page here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, it's Monday in Paris. You are listening to the Earful Tower podcast. My name's Oliver G. |
| 0:05.1 | And this show is brought to you by French Today. French Today, they're audio books that will teach you how to speak French like a French person. |
| 0:12.4 | More on them at the end of the episode, including the code to get a 10% discount, which is slash earful for. |
| 0:19.5 | French Today.com slash earful four. |
| 0:21.6 | More on them at the end. |
| 0:22.7 | But it's also, well, it's the first day of April, |
| 0:25.0 | which means it's April Fool's Day. |
| 0:27.3 | And I did consider trying to pull some kind of prank on you guys, |
| 0:31.1 | but I decided against it. |
| 0:33.2 | You guys have seen my haircut. |
| 0:34.5 | You get a free joke every single day. |
| 0:37.3 | So I'm going to keep it real |
| 0:39.4 | with you guys. This is a fun episode and I want to get straight into it. But first, I'll tell |
| 0:43.3 | you the story of how it came about because it's rather unusual. I've been doing this for two years. |
| 0:47.3 | This never happened before. So let me tell you the story. I was walking down the street in the |
| 0:51.6 | 9th Iron Desmond. I was with Lena, my wife, who you might, eagle-eared, |
| 0:57.6 | eagle-eared listeners might hear my wife in the background of this episode. |
| 1:00.9 | So we're walking down the street, and I crossed over to take a picture of some street sign |
| 1:05.7 | or something, as I usually do, and I found myself standing next to the one and only |
| 1:10.4 | Caroline de Migri, who, |
| 1:12.4 | if you've never heard of her, you've been living under a rock, she's a model, she's a music |
| 1:16.7 | producer, and she wrote the book, How to Be Parisian, wherever you are. She's essentially |
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