Hello everyone. You're listening to the Earful Tower podcast and you have come at a great time.

It's a good episode today. I'm going to be speaking with the mayor of the 18th hour and dismaléry,

Monsieur Le M. Merre, talking about Montmartre. But more about today's episode in a second.

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I'll also be talking before we get into the mayor. Firstly, hang on, look, I want to start with a thank you.

A big thank you to everyone.

If you're listening for the first time ever right now, not sending you a thank you.

I'm sending you a welcome, but a thank you to all the people who have come back,

who are listening again to people who've recommended the show.

Last month, August, the Eiffel Tower podcast had 50,000 downloads, which might not mean much to you guys,

but that's the statistic by which I measure how this podcast is growing, and that is by far the biggest month.

So thank you, a million thank yous.

Well, 50,000 thank you to all you guys for listening.

It really makes a big difference to me.

It's probably how I managed to convince today's guest to come on.

So about today's episode, the guest is Eric Le Juandre, and so he's the mayor of the 18th Arandesmont.

So let me walk you through it. The 18th Arandisement is one of the biggest districts in Paris.

You'll probably know it as the district that has Montmartre, which you're all going to learn how to

pronounce properly from the mayor very soon, but it also has some areas sort of further north

and further east, for example, Jules Jofrin, where the town hall is, where I went and met with

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