Inside Notre Dame After the Fire: New Colours, New Light, and What’s Changed

This Week on The Earful Tower: Notre Dame's Grand Reopening

In this special episode, we dive into Notre Dame's grand reopening after the fire that shook the world. I speak with Ariel Weil, the mayor of Paris' central arrondissements, about his firsthand experience inside the newly restored cathedral, and what’s next for this iconic monument.

Then, for a visitor's perspective, I chat with Bertrand d'Aleman, co-founder of My Private Paris, about what tourists can expect when they visit Notre Dame in the coming year.

Both interviews were recorded just steps away from Notre Dame itself — and you can watch the video on YouTube!

This episode is brought to you by My Private Paris, the award-winning travel company offering private tours in Paris, day trips around France, and custom travel itineraries. Marie Segura, co-founder of My Private Paris, also shares insider tips about the Passage des Panoramas.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, Oliver G here. This is the Earful Tower podcast and as I'm sure you have probably seen online, Notre Dame reopened over the weekend to a lot of, wow, pomp and circumstance and ceremony. It was quite the touching show, if you ask me. But I'm sure that your feeds, your social media, your news feeds, everything has been filled
0:23.7	with what was going on there.
0:25.6	So I want to look ahead.
0:27.0	I want to look at what next for Notre Dame, what now for Notre Dame.
0:31.9	And I went down there right before it opened and I spoke to two people.
0:36.5	I spoke to Ariel Vale who is the mayor
0:39.6	of Paris Centre which means the first second third and fourth Aaron this once he's been in there
0:45.9	already a bunch of times he was there I saw him on TV at the big unveiling and he stopped to have a
0:53.2	little chat about what it looks like inside and what's
0:56.4	coming up. After that, I spoke to Bertrand d'Alman, who is the founder, the co-founder of my
1:03.3	private Paris. They do private tours of Paris and beyond and they are sponsoring this whole
1:09.1	season of the podcast and he gave some great insight into what you can expect as visitors to Notre Dame over the next year.
1:17.6	Incidentally, we recorded both of these interviews on video camera,
1:23.0	so you'll be able to see it as well if you like on YouTube the Eiffel Tower's YouTube channel otherwise let's get
1:29.0	straight into it with Ariel Monsieur Le Maire of Paris Centre talking about Notre Dame.
1:34.7	I'll be back at the end to share some final thoughts. Ariel Val, the mayor of the 1-2-3-4, how are you doing?
1:55.1	I'm doing fine. I'm actually a little move now as we get closer to the ceremony.
1:59.8	Yeah, I mean, I remember remember we talked you and i did a
2:02.3	podcast episode right after not sure down burned down you were right there standing with i think you were with
2:07.3	macko and idago and there yeah i was there i mean way before the president came to the city to the town
2:12.6	and the island um i actually walked that bridge i run that bridge as I saw the fire and Mayor Dalgo came with me
2:20.3	and we were there from the very beginning of that night. Right. And so now if we fast forward
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Inside Notre Dame After the Fire: New Colours, New Light, and What’s Changed

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

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