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The Earful Tower: Paris

The 8th arrondissement: The most elegant part of Paris

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

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

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The 8th arrondissement is this week's focus on the podcast. Here's what we found after spending a full day there.

Mentioned in this show, in order of mention

Bridge: Pont Alexandre III

The Champs-Elysées

(Send a postcard to:

The Earful Tower

34 Ave des Champs Elysees

75008 Paris, France)

Iwi Coffee shop

Galeries Lafayette

Église Saint-Philippe-du-Roule

Petit Palais

American Cathedral

Parc Monceau

Pagoda of Paris

Musée Nissim de Camondo

Plaza Athenee 

Maxims restaurant

Buddha bar

Bugsy’s

Including interviews with Gabriel from Iwi Coffee and Nat Katz, the canon of the American Cathedral in Paris

The Earful Tower podcast episode

This podcast episode features music by Pres Maxson, including his take on the Joe Dassin classic Les Champs-Elysées.

Video guide to the 8th arrondissement

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). 

The Earful Tower’s guide to the 8th arrondissement

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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. This is the Earful Tower podcast. My name is Oliver. I am Lena.

0:05.0

And today we want to take you all to the eighth, Aaron Dismond of Paris, the elegant eighth.

0:11.0

I'm going to start with a bit of trivia.

0:13.9

Go on then.

0:14.4

When I say to you, Elysian Fields or Elysian Fields.

0:19.8

I say learn how to pronounce it

0:22.0

Do you know what it is though

0:23.9

I have a suspicion

0:26.0

Because we just looked it up

0:28.6

I was talking to the listeners

0:30.2

Elysian Fields

0:32.2

are it's a sort of paradise

0:34.7

In Greek mythology

0:35.9

And if you're at home thinking Why are are they talking about Elysian Fields?

0:40.0

Translated to French, guys.

0:42.0

Yeah.

0:42.7

Chonseilier.

0:44.4

Oh, yes.

0:46.3

Yes. Paradise.

0:48.9

Shopping paradise, perhaps.

0:50.6

And a huge artery, a huge street that runs through the 8th Arandisement to the Arc de Triumph.

0:57.3

All of this is in the 8th hour on this month.

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