The INIMITABLE Arc de Triomphe: Five things you didn't know
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
It's another new season - and we're doing a new take on the A to Z of Paris. This time, A stands for Arc de Triomphe. A big thanks to the team at the Arch, who opened this majestic monument just for me! I had the whole thing to myself, did an interview on top - and then made this episode.
You'll hear my wife Lina as my sidekick as I share about 10-15 cool things about the Arch, at least five of which you definitely didn't know.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, Oliver G from the Earful Tower podcast here, and this is an episode about the Ark |
| 0:06.3 | de Triumph, the magnificent triumphal arch over in western Paris, and, well, I mean, it's |
| 0:14.1 | very hard to do an episode about a monument. |
| 0:16.7 | So what I've done is I'm presenting in a kind of a fun way. |
| 0:20.0 | I've written down about, I don't know, 15 fun facts. |
| 0:22.9 | I'm going to share them with you with my wife Lena as a sort of sidekick. |
| 0:26.3 | You're going to hear me interviewing the press secretary on top of the arch and they opened it up for me privately. |
| 0:34.0 | So I had the whole arch to triumph to myself, which makes for a pretty special moment for not just this podcast, but for the YouTube video that's going to accompany it more on that later. |
| 0:43.4 | And a little bit of a quick admin. |
| 0:45.9 | You maybe heard me say that last week was a new season of the podcast. |
| 0:50.6 | This is also a new season of the podcast. |
| 0:52.9 | This is the A to Z of Paris, a whole new version of it. |
| 0:56.9 | A is for Arc to Triumph. |
| 0:58.8 | And last time was the 20th arrondissement, 20 down to one. |
| 1:02.6 | So I'm going to skip between the two. |
| 1:04.7 | So next week we'll be in the 19th district. |
| 1:06.9 | The week after that we'll be doing something in Paris beginning with B. |
| 1:10.0 | That way I'm keeping it fresh for me and for you. |
| 1:13.8 | So here we go. |
| 1:15.7 | Arc de Triumph, first time we're featuring it on this podcast, |
| 1:18.9 | and I think it's a pretty fun episode. |
| 1:20.6 | I hope you enjoy it. |
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