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<span class="bold large">Par.is</span> <span class="super">1</span> <span class="medium">|ˈparis|</span><br/>
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<p class="paragraph"><span class="bold">1</span> the capital of France, on the Seine River; pop. 2,175,000. Paris was held by the Romans, who called it Lutetia, and by the Franks, and was established as the capital in 987 under Hugh Capet. It was organized into three parts—the Île de la Cité (an island in the Seine), the Right Bank, and the Left Bank—during the reign of Philippe-Auguste 1180–1223. The city's neoclassical architecture dates from the modernization of the Napoleonic era, which continued under Napoleon III, when the bridges and boulevards of the modern city were built.</p><br/>
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<p class="paragraph"><span class="bold">2</span> a commercial city in northeastern Texas; pop. 24,699.</p><br/>
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ORIGIN named after the <span class="bold italic">Parisii</span>, a Gallic people who settled on the Île de la Cité.<br/>
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<span class="bold large">Par.is</span> <span class="super">2</span> <span class="sans">Greek Mythology</span><br/>
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<p class="paragraph">a Trojan prince, the son of <a href="#priam">Priam</a> and <a href="#hecuba">Hecuba</a>. Appointed by the gods to decide who among the three goddesses <a href="#hera">Hera</a>, <a href="#athena">Athena</a>, and <a href="#aphrodite">Aphrodite</a> should win a prize for beauty, he awarded it to <a href="#aphrodite">Aphrodite</a>, who promised him the most beautiful woman in the world—<a href="#helen">Helen</a>, wife of King <a href="#menelaus">Menelaus</a> of Sparta. He abducted <a href="#helen">Helen</a>, bringing about the Trojan War, in which he killed <a href="#achilles">Achilles</a> but was later himself killed.</p><br/>
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<span class="bold large">Par.is</span> <span class="super">3</span>
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<p class="paragraph">, Matthew, see <span class="bold caps">Matthew Paris</span>.</p><br/> |