Inside an empty Louvre museum
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Hello everyone!
It's a brand new season of The Earful Tower, where I'll be exploring each of the 20 arrondissements in order.
So naturally, we will start in the first and we'll start with a bang!
I went for an explore of the Louvre museum when it was closed to the public. With me, Maria Pasca from My Private Paris, a boutique tour agency which is the sponsor of this new podcast season.
The museum was inaugurating the room that features the famed Mona Lisa painting, and had opened it just for Louvre members.
Hope you enjoy this episode!
The music in this episode included "Invitation to the Castle Ball" by Doug Maxwell.
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Find out more about My Private Paris here (and tell them I sent you!)
Get a copy of my new book here.
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| 0:00.0 | Earful Tower listeners, it's Oliver G here. It's a new year. It's a new decade. It's a new season of the show. |
| 0:06.5 | And I've got a lot of exciting things to share with you. But first, let me ask you a question. |
| 0:11.2 | When I say first Aeron Disman of Paris, what do you think? Do you think about the Louvre Museum? |
| 0:17.7 | Do you know who's inside the Louvre Museum? Of course you do. It's the most famous woman |
| 0:22.6 | in Paris. Maybe in the world, maybe in art history, the Mona Lisa. In this episode, you're going to hear me |
| 0:30.1 | and my guest track down Mona Lisa in a very empty Louvre Museum, just like the Da Vinci Code. But more on that in a second. |
| 0:40.0 | First, let me just explain what's going on here. If you've been listening to this show for a long |
| 0:43.9 | time, you'll know that I've done many seasons, five, six seasons already. This season I'm a little |
| 0:49.2 | bit more organized. I'm going to be doing 20 episodes of which this is the first one, and in every episode, |
| 0:55.7 | I'm going to focus on one of the districts of Paris, or is they known in French, the arrondissement. |
| 1:01.1 | So, if you're brand new to Paris, which I kind of doubt, I kind of doubt that you're brand new to Paris, |
| 1:06.2 | but if you didn't know, these 20 districts are arranged in a snail-like formation, going from |
| 1:11.9 | one in the very center, spiraling clockwise out until number 20, which is over in eastern Paris, |
| 1:19.3 | which is where Belleville and Palisches are. So we're starting episode one right in the middle |
| 1:24.8 | with very special guest Maria Paskaska, who's the communications director |
| 1:29.2 | and the marketing manager of a brand called My Private Paris. |
| 1:34.0 | Now, they do, it's a boutique travel agency, they do customized tours, they know Paris |
| 1:38.3 | inside out, and they got in touch with me a while back. |
| 1:41.2 | And I went and had lunch with Maria and Bertrand, one of the founders |
| 1:45.0 | of the company, a lunch by the Arc de Triumph. They said to me, tell me a little bit about |
| 1:50.5 | your new season idea and I said, well, I'm going to be going through the Arandisponse, |
| 1:55.0 | starting from one, going to 20. They said, what are you doing for number one? I said, well, |
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