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The Earful Tower: Paris

The 15th arrondissement of Paris: The overlooked district

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

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

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

It's Season 12 of The Earful Tower, The Paris Countdown: Here comes an-depth guide to the Paris arrondissements after we've spent 24 hours in each of them.

This week it's the 15th arrondissement of Paris. 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 Le vent nous portera, by Noir Désir.

Below are all the places we mentioned. 

Where to stay?

Relais 12bis

Address: 12 Bis Rue Desaix, 75015

The best restaurants

Cafe du Commerce @lecafeducommerce.1921

Address: 51 Rue du Commerce, 75015

 

Best place for a drink

Le Ciel de Paris Restaurant
Address: Tour Maine Montparnasse, 56ème, Av. du Maine, 75015

The best cafe

Good News Coffee Shop @good_news_coffeeshop 

Address: 27 bis Rue Mademoiselle, 75015 Paris

 

More things to find in the 15th

Poilâne Tour Eiffel @poilane 

Address: 49 Bd de Grenelle, 75015

Île aux Cygnes

Address: Île aux Cygnes, 75015

Ballon de Paris

Address: Parc André Citroën, 75015

Musée Bourdelle

Address: 18 Rue Antoine Bourdelle, 75015

 

Additional:

Parc Georges Brassens

Address: 2 Pl. Jacques Marette, 75015 Paris

La Ruche 

Address: 2 Pass. de Dantzig, 75015 Paris

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone, you're listening to the Earful Tower podcast.

0:02.5

My name is Oliver G.

0:03.9

I am Lena Norton-G.

0:05.4

And this is a show about Paris.

0:08.0

Yes.

0:08.5

This season, we're doing what we call the Paris Countdown,

0:11.0

where we're going through all the Aeron Disponts one by one.

0:14.7

And to give you a little bit of a clue what's coming up today,

0:18.6

what do the following words mean to you, Lena?

0:22.4

Beehive, swans, automobile factory workers.

0:28.5

A bit of good news.

0:31.1

Did I say swans?

0:32.6

He did.

0:33.5

And a balloon that doesn't always fly.

0:40.0

Is it a murder mystery?

0:40.6

No.

0:41.2

Oh.

0:44.7

It is the 15th hour on this one, of course.

0:45.4

Oh.

0:47.6

All these are things.

0:52.3

Lina and a murder mystery is goodness, but all these are things that we visit in the 15th, and we're going to tell you about it.

0:53.7

But first, we have not really a jingle.

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