The 17th arrondissement of Paris: A slice of family life

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

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

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 43 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 17th arrondissement of Paris. The YouTube video that goes with this episode will be here, and the blog post will be 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.

Below are all the places we mentioned.

Where we stayed

Villa Alessandra @villa_alessandra_paris

Address: 9 Pl. Boulnois, 75017 Paris

The restaurants

Le Dada @ledada_paris

Address: 12 Av. des Ternes, 75017

Mamma Primi @bigmammagroup

Address: 18 Rue Boursault, 75017 Paris

Where we had a drink

L’Ambre Bar @ambrebar

Address: 29 Rue Brunel, 75017 Paris

Les Caves Populaire @lescavespopulaires

Address: 22 Rue des Dames, 75017 Paris

The cafe

Dose Café @dose.paris

Address: 82 Place du Dr Félix Lobligeois, 75017 Paris

More things to find in the 17th

Cité de l’Économie money museum

Address: 1 Pl. du Général Catroux, 75017 Paris

Boulevard Pereire park for a walk or cycle

Square des Batignolles

Address: 144 bis Rue Cardinet, 75017 Paris

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Earful Tower podcast. My name's Oliver G. This is a show all about sort of
0:06.1	uncovering what Paris has to offer. And you've come at a time when the season is all about the
0:10.8	Aeron Disponts of Paris. We're going from 20 down to one, spending 24 hours in each of them.
0:16.9	This week, we're staying in the 17th Aeron Desmond, which is a very healthy mix of family,
0:25.0	village type life and sort of expensive residential, beautiful architecture, slice of life.
0:32.8	Mix the two together and what are you got?
0:34.6	You got this week's podcast episode.
0:36.5	Co-hosted by my wife, Lena Norton
0:38.4	G. Hello. And featuring a look at Paris like you've never seen before. In this episode,
0:43.5	you'll also hear for an American who lives in a very unique apartment indeed and a bartender who left
0:49.0	one of the top hotel bars in the country to start his own place in the 17th. This is a bar with a very interesting backstory.
0:57.3	But first, the music you're about to hear features a clue about how we got around the 17th
1:02.9	district.
1:04.0	See if you can figure it out.
1:19.5	Music Ah, lovely.
1:26.0	That's La Bicyclet by Eve Monta, as played by longtime earful listener, press maxim.
1:31.2	Last week, we didn't shout out that the piano music was your dad.
1:31.7	Yeah.
1:32.8	Which... Hey, Papa.
1:33.5	Yeah, it's a bit of a family show.
1:35.7	Funny I say family because this week we're in a family district.
1:39.6	Nice.
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