Revolutionary Audio Tours of Paris

With VoiceMap.me, we have created three walking tours of Paris based on revolutionary themes. The first, Benjamin Franklin’s Paris: a guide to the revolutionary’s life in the city, is here in English and ici en français. On this free 45-minute walking tour, you’ll be guided through late-1700s Paris as if by Franklin himself, and hear about the City of Light that he came to know and love. You’ll also see the many monuments dotted around the 16th arrondissement that commemorate the first partnership of the newborn United States with its sister republic-to-be, France. Many thanks to Mark Primmer, of the Benjamin Franklin Post of the VFW in Paris, and to Yorick de Guichen, of the Society of the Cincinnati, for providing Franklin’s voice in English and French. Nb. If you aren’t in Paris, you can listen virtually and dream!

Between Two Revolutions: the Marquis de Lafayette tour takes you through the center of Paris, while he explains the key role of the Palais Royal during revolutionary times, and ends at his last residence. And the tour Lessons in History: A Guide to Thomas Jefferson’s Time in Paris follows a path through Saint-Germain-des-Près while Jefferson explains the influence of the American Revolution on that of the French. Claude Urraca does the voice of the Marquis de Lafayette, and the former dean of the American Cathedral in Paris, Zachary Fleetwood, takes on the voice of Jefferson. Many thanks to them both!