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In a country like France, where tradition reigns supreme, even a suggestion of change or newness has long been met with scepticism by locals. This is no longer the case, offers writer and adopted Parisian Lindsey Tramuta in The New Paris podcast, a side dish to her bestselling books “The New Paris” and “The New Parisienne”. Here, with an assortment of other local experts, she takes a closer look at the people, places and ideas that are changing the fabric of the storied French capital.
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130: Painting and creating in Paris with Guillaume Sardin
When it comes to artistic endeavors, Paris shines bright as a historically welcome place to pursue them. The city that gave us the Louvre and some of the finest galleries in the world is full of creative talent or, at the very least, creative inspiration. But how it feels living and working as an artist in Paris is an altogether different story. Today’s guest trained as an architect but has been working as an illustrator and painter for several years and has a unique viewpoint on the arts. Guillaume Sardin has exhibited his work in Southeast Asia, South Africa, and throughout Europe, created works for French icons like Ruinart and Le Bristol, and talks today about how cultural preservation needs to be a bipartisan ambition.
Mentioned in this episode:
Guillaume Sardin (website and Instagram)
Nantes School of Architecture
Créolization & Edouard Glissant
French ministry of culture history
Pierre Paulin room at the Elysée Palace
Aya Nakamura and the Olympics
Rachida Dati as Cultural Minister
Stendhal's Syndrome
Château d'Écouen- Renaissance Museum
Château de Maisons
Villa Savoye
Château Rosa Bonheur
Malmaison & Josephine
Palais de la Porte Dorée
History of Immigration Museum
André and Ivana Lemaître
Audio production & editing: Matthew Jordan
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129: On Running a Cooking School in Paris with Jane Bertch
Running a business in Paris is a dream for some, a hardship for others. But for today’s guest, Jane Bertch, it has been a variety of things including life changing. 15 years ago she confounded La Cuisine Paris, a French cooking school that is still going strong. She talks about the journey to Paris and running a cooking school in her book: The French Ingredient: Making a Life in Paris One Lesson at a Time which hits shelves April 9. Our conversation covers the Jane from Chicago to the Jane of Paris, starting and running a business, lessons from locals, and writing a memoir.
Mentioned in this episode:
Episode 9 with Jane Bertch
Jane's book: The French Ingredient
La Cuisine Paris cooking classes
La Cuisine Paris on Instagram
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128: On bikes, the Olympics, & the Transforming City with Brent Longley
There’s nothing like leaving Paris for a short time to reset perspectives. I’ve recently returned from 10 days in New York and the Philadelphia region and I was struck by how worn and behind both destinations felt. Part of that is lingering socio-economic impact of the pandemic, and part of it may be insufficient funds devoted to much-needed improvements to public services and transportation. It only served to amplify how good we have it in Paris where major infrastructural investment and urban rehabilitation policies have shaped the city. To talk about this, I'm joined by my friend Brent Longley, an urbanist who moved to Paris a year ago with fervent support for Mayor Hidalgo and her transformative policies. We discuss Paris as a global leader in urban transformation, the opposition that still exists to some of the changes underway, and where the Olympics fits into the equation of a sustainable metropolis.
Mentioned in this episode:
Brent Longley, urbanist
The Tryphena Project, Brent's newsletter
Infill architecture
Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Audio production & editing: Matthew Jordan
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127: On Loving & Leaving Paris with Sara Lieberman
Paris has always been a refuge for foreigners. For a lifetime for some, for a chapter of their lives for others. One of my very best friends in Paris was drawn to many of the qualities that I’ve described on the show over the years (and in The New Paris book) and falls into one of those categories. Like me, she’s been an avid storyteller and reporter covering the many ways that old meets new in the city and how it’s changed over the years. But now, she’s gearing up to leave which is exciting for her and sad for those who love her here. It seemed like the right time to have her on the show to talk about that particular Paris experience, and all of the things she’s seen change in the almost decade that she's lived here. And we made it nearly to the end without tears!
Mentioned in this episode:
Sara Lieberman
Sara's newsletter Overthinking It
Sara on Instagram
Sara's GQ story on Mayor Hidalgo's swimmer son
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Audio production & editing: Matthew Jordan
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126: Paris 2023 in Review
Welcome to the end of 2023! Let's take a look back at the challenging, protest-heavy, crisis-generating year in Paris and beyond, with a few thoughts for 2024. Bonnes fêtes et bonne année! Season 8 will begin in the second half of January.
Buy my book: The New Paris
Buy my book: The New Parisienne
Follow me on social: @LindseyTramuta
Follow the show: @TheNewParisPodcast
Audio production & editing: Matthew Jordan
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125: Book Culture in Paris with Audrey Chapuis
Paris has a long legacy not merely as a world capital of culture but as a literary capital. Some of the world’s greatest writers and thinkers have created some of their best work in or about Paris and found homes for it in bookstores, to be sure, but also libraries. Two years ago I interviewed the bestselling author Janet Skeslien Charles on this show about her novel The Paris Library (Episode 74) but today I’m excited to be joined by the executive director of The American Library in Paris Audrey Chapuis, someone I’ve had the great pleasure of collaborating with over the years as I’ve spoken at the library about my own work and moderated discussions for other authors. This fall, we were among the inaugural speakers at the Angers English language Literary Festival and Audrey spoke at length. In this conversation, we talk about her library path, bookish culture in Paris, the role that libraries play in the world and the role that this library has played since 1920, and much more.
Mentioned in this episode:
Audrey Chapuis
The American Library in Paris
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Proust and the Squid
Sara Georgini
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Hala Alyan
Kirstin Chen and Grace Ly in conversation
On the Road events
The BNF
Galignani Bookstore
Joan by Katherine Chen
The Curse of the Marquis de Sade by Joel Warner
Audio production & editing: Matthew Jordan
Music by Little Glass Men
Customer Reviews
Excellent taste of Paris
New to the podcast, I love the guests and different perspectives given. Some topics feel a bit heavy, only recommendation would be to intersperse some fluffier topics for lack of a better word: travel, escapism, perhaps more on joie de vivre (that episode was great but only scratched the surface).
always worth a listen
like getting to eavesdrop on the most interesting conversations.
Huge fan!
Lindsey Tramuta offers excellent real life insight into French culture (not just another Paris puff piece). I love reading her books and articles and having her in my ear for long walks. Highly recommend her work in any medium.