Paris's Left Bank
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Left Bank, or, as the French say, the Rive Gauche. What is it? Where is it? Or who is it? And what's the live event we're doing on November 15th?
All these questions are answered with the help of author John Baxter, Set in Paris's Abigail de Bruyne, Coutume's Tom Clark, tour guide Corey Frye - and a full day whizzing around Paris on the red scooter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hereful Tower listeners, hello. |
| 0:01.7 | What we usually do on this show is we do a special guest, and we talk for half an hour, |
| 0:06.7 | but not today. |
| 0:07.6 | Today we're doing a special topic, and that is going to be the Left Bank of Paris. |
| 0:12.8 | So, what is the Left Bank of Paris? |
| 0:14.9 | Where is the Left Bank of Paris? |
| 0:16.8 | Maybe who is the Left Bank of Paris? |
| 0:19.1 | And what's this live show you got planned for next week, Oliver? |
| 0:21.9 | All this after the jingle. |
| 0:27.5 | So there you go. |
| 0:29.4 | We're not just having one guest this week. |
| 0:30.8 | We're going to have several guests. |
| 0:32.4 | I've gone down to the left bank on the red scooter. |
| 0:34.8 | I've interviewed a bunch of people doing interesting things. |
| 0:37.8 | But before we even get into that, let's just tackle this topic of what is the left bank |
| 0:42.5 | for anyone who's got no idea what I'm talking about. Now, in French, it's called the Rivegouche, |
| 0:48.1 | which literally just means the left bank. And what it is, is if you're standing at the Sen River |
| 0:53.5 | in the center of Paris it's everything |
| 0:55.7 | that's on your left-hand side so that's six Aaron Dismonts or all sort of districts the fifth |
| 1:00.6 | sixth seventh 13th 14th and the 15th and it's kind of almost I mean that's geographically what it is |
| 1:07.5 | but it's almost more of a feeling. This is like the, that sounds very |
| 1:11.5 | pretentious maybe, but that's kind of, when you think about Paris, the old days, you think of |
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