The 13th arrondissement of Paris: Hidden gems

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

It's the Paris Countdown! Here comes an-depth guide to the 13th arrondissement of Paris after we spent 24 hours there.

The blog post is here with all the pictures.

A big thank you to the Patreon supporters, without whom we wouldn't be making this season. Join them here.

Music: A Pres Maxson interpretation of La mer, by Charles Trenet.

Below are all the places we mentioned.

Where to stay? / An unusual hotel

OFF Paris Seine

Address: 86 Quai d'Austerlitz, 75013 @offparisseine

The best restaurants

Eat in Chinatown:

Impérial Choisy @imperialchoisy

Address: 32 Av. de Choisy, 75013

Best place for a drink

Evening drink on a boat

Bateau El Alamein @bateauelalamein

Address: 10 Port de la Gare, 75013

Terrace drink:

Les Tanneurs de la Butte @lestanneursdelabutte

Address: 22 Rue de la Butte aux Cailles, 75013

The best cafe

Bob’s Cafe in MK2 Bibliothèque

Address: MK2 Bibliothèque, 128-162 Av. de France, 75013

More things to find

Stroll through the Butte-aux-Cailles

Visit the antique map shop

Librairie Loeb Larocque - maps & books @librarie.loeb.larocque

Address: 31 Rue de Tolbiac, 75013

Track down traces of the Bievre river

Find the magnificent globes

François-Mitterrand Library - The Globes of Coronelli or Globes of Marly are a pair of globes (terrestrial and celestial) of large size (about 4 meters in diameter) made by Vincenzo Coronelli and offered to Louis XIV at the end of the 17th century.

Address: Quai François Mauriac, 75706

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. You're listening to the Earful Tau podcast. My name is Oliver G. I am Lina, Nordenji.
0:05.1	And this season, we're going through every hour and this one of Paris, spending 24 hours in it,
0:09.8	and reporting back to you the things that are worth doing. And everybody told me, this can't be
0:15.7	done. The 13th. What can't be done? This can't be done. And who's that? Everybody. Because, not just because it's an unlucky number.
0:23.4	Of course.
0:24.1	But because it's probably the least touristy destination of all the districts in Paris.
0:29.2	And people would be forgiven for thinking there's nothing to find.
0:33.8	But we have found heaps of cool stuff.
0:37.3	Well, you've got some gems.
0:38.6	Surprising stuff.
0:39.5	Some hidden gems.
0:40.6	Mostly hidden gems.
0:41.5	Some big hidden gems.
0:42.6	Yeah, wow, yeah.
0:43.6	So we're going to take you guys on a wonderful journey, and it starts, well, instead
0:50.0	of telling you where it starts, we're going to play this week's music, which is another
0:52.8	interpretation by Press Maxim.
0:55.4	And if you know what the song is, you might get an idea of where we spent a lot of time in the 13th.
1:03.0	Hit the music.
1:04.0	Hit it.
1:24.5	That song is La Mare.
1:26.2	La Mare.
	...

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