Passing crowd in Latin Quarter of Paris

This is a simple recording of the passing crowd in the heart of the Latin Quarter of Paris, France, on a Wednesday evening between Christmas and New Year's Eve. The recording was made at the corner of the pedestrian Xavier Privas and Huchette streets, with the mics aimed diagonally across the street, about 4.5 feet above ground. By a happy coincidence (I'd like to say that I engineered it, but I didn't), this sound file loops seamlessly.

The clip includes the sounds of many people passing by (the area was very crowded), and some snippets of conversation, mostly in French, with a few other languages thrown in. Some faint traffic noise can be heard on the left, from the busy Quai Saint Michel street along the south bank of the Seine River, at the north end of the Xavier Privas street (left of the mics in this recording).

Recorded with a hand-held Zoom H4n, stereo, 96 kHz / 24 bits, built-in mics