The 5th arrondissement: Historic Paris

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

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

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The 5th arrondissement is this week's focus on the podcast. Here's what we found after spending a full day there.

Mentioned in this show

This podcast episode includes a brief interview with jazz singer Matthieu Boré and writer Sam Barrantes, and our final ranking on the district out of 100.

This podcast episode features music by Pres Maxson, including his take on "Place de la Contrescarpe," by Jacques Brel

We’ll share our visit, in video format, on our YouTube channel in the coming days. We’ll be making one of these travel vlogs every week, so be sure to subscribe (you can do it in one click via this link).

Read our full guide with all the pictures on the Earful Tower website here.

A big thanks to the Patreon members who make all this possible. Join them here.

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0:00.0	Salve, Lena. Salva, Salvee. Salvee to everybody at home. What is salve? You might wonder.
0:07.1	Well, I hope that it's how to say hello in Latin because we're in the Latin quarter this week.
0:11.4	I really hope so because we've been salving our way through the fifth round this month.
0:15.6	Yeah, to the butcher, the baker, the candlest thing. We may as well get that fact out of the way straight away.
0:22.1	The Latin quarter, that's a large part of the fifth hour and decimal, which we're focusing on today.
0:26.8	And it is so named because the students used to study in Latin.
0:32.3	And my cursory Google, before we started a YouTube video, was that the way to say hello is Salvei.
0:38.3	So there we go.
0:39.3	Yeah.
0:40.3	So that's the episode for today.
0:41.3	We're going to be talking about the fifth hour on this one, everything we did there in a very
0:44.3	enjoyable and very full day.
0:47.3	I will talk to a bit about the vibe and we'll share some of the tricks and secrets and things
0:51.3	that you can find if you plan to visit yourself.
0:55.0	Yeah.
0:55.5	And a shout out to all the Patreon members, the members of the club for the Earful Tower,
0:59.8	who make this thing go a huge salve to you.
1:04.1	Patreon.com slash the Earful Tower.
1:06.3	Lena, are you ready?
1:07.7	Yes, I am.
1:08.9	Let's do it.
1:39.9	Okay. Are you ready? Yes, I am. That was the first time I've heard it.
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