PARINI 



Parini, QIDSKPPK (1729-09). Peleus and Tbstis, had thrown * 

 Italian poet and satirist. Born at golden apple among the guests, 

 Bosisio, near Milan, May 22. 1720, Inscribed v for the fairest." 



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, .,-,. Italian poet 



tirst part, Mattin.i. 17153, created 

 >i>inrtlii!i-j of a sensation <>n its 

 |iiilili.-atinii. Written in blank verse, 



the |iiicin -1\. s uon, Infill |U,-(im-s 



i>f rontem|M,i.u y manners. I'arini 

 published about a score of odea, 

 and in 1795 issued his Epistle to 

 Sylvia. He died Aug. 15, 1799. 



Pari passu il-.u.. with equal 

 pace). At the same time and rate. 



Paris. Small genus of perennial 

 herbs of the natural order Liliaceae. 

 They are natives of Europe and 

 temperate parts of Asia. They 

 have creeping rootstocks, a simple 

 stem, a single whorl of from four 

 to nine leaves, and a solitary 

 yellow-green flower, succeeded by 

 a black berry. See Herb Paris. 



Paris. In Greek legend, son of 

 Priam and Hecuba. Soothsayers 

 having foretold that Paris would 



Hera, Athena, and Aphrodltteaoh 

 claiming the apple, Zeus ordered 

 them to submit to the judgement 

 of Pan*. Hera promised Paris 

 sovereignty, Athena, military glory. 

 and Aphrodite, the most beautiful 

 woman in the world. Paris gave 

 the apple to Aphrodite, who 

 caused Helen, wife of Menelaus of 

 Sparta, to fall in love with Paris. 

 He carried her off to Troy, and 

 .thus provoked the Trojan U u 



Durinv the war Park dfetingukbsd 

 himself little lie wait wonted in 

 combat with Menelau*. and WM 

 only saved by being carried otf t In- 

 field by Aphrodite. He is credited, 

 however, with having caused the 

 death of Achille*. by shoot r 

 with an arrow in the heel. On tin- 

 taking of Troy, Paris was wounded 

 by one of the poisoned arrows of 

 Philocteies, arid repaired to bin 

 long desert<-<! wife, Oi-none, a 

 nymph of Mount Ida, who refused 

 to heal him, and he returned to 

 Troy to die .S'ee Helen of Troy. 



PARIS: THE CITY AND ITS HISTORY 



Jullui M. Price. Author of Bohemian Day* In Part* 



Further tn/iirmation concerning the French capital is given in 



articles on the city's famous buildings, e.g. Invalides; Louvre; 



Luxembourg ; Notre Dame . Palais Royal, etc. See France ; 



Seine ; also colour map 



Paris, the capital of France, 

 stands on the river Seine, in the 

 heart of what was formerly the 

 province of lle- 

 de-France. It is 

 about 230 in. 

 from the mouth 

 of the river, or 

 110 measured in 

 a straight line ; 

 the distance from 

 London to Paris 

 by rly. (via Dover 

 285 in., by air 



Pahs arms 



and 



Calais) 



bring calamity on Troy, the infant (Croydon to Le Bourget) 240 m. 



was exposed on Mount Ida, and The city is in the form of an irre- 



cared for by shepherds, but after- gular square, the bounds of which, 



wards l>ecame aware of his origin, 22 m. in length, are formed by the 



and was received again into the ramparts, built 1840-44 as part of 



royal household. While still a the wider system of fortification 



shepherd on Ida he delivered his surrounding the capital. These 



famous judgement. The goddess city fortifications, now in course of 



of strife, enraged at not having demolition, enclose an area of 



been invited to the marriage of 19,279 acres. The northern parts 



Parii judging between the beauty o! Hera. Athena, and AphrodT;e. 

 painting by Rubens 



.ValiomJ Uflltrf. Londtn 



From the 



of the city, such as Montmartre, 

 rise fairly steeply to a height of 

 about 400 ft. The population in 

 1921 was 2,856,000. 



The Seine, flowing in a great 

 curve through the centre of Paris, 

 divides the city into two, and the 

 great modern capital has grown 

 round the small island known as 

 the tie de la Cite. The main feature 

 in the street-planning is the system 

 of broad, tree-planted boulevards 

 intersecting the city. The Grands 

 Boulevards extend from the church 

 of the Madeleine to the Place de 

 la Bastille, and were planned by 

 Louis XIV on the site of the fortifi- 

 cations of Etienne Marcel. Though 

 bearing different names, they form 

 an uninterrupted thoroughfare and 

 a most important artery, continu- 

 ed by the Place de la Nation to 

 Vincennes. They are intersected 

 by the Boulevards de Strasbourg 

 and Sevastopol, while the Boule- 

 vards St. Germain, St. Michel, and 

 Raspail are main arteries of tin- left 

 bank dists., the Boulevards Hauss- 

 mann and Courcelles of the N . \V. 



In other respects also Paris 

 offers striking features of town- 

 planning. The twelve magnificent 

 avenues which branch star \\IM- 

 from the Arc de Triomphe (Place 

 de 1'Etoile) include the Avenue des 

 Champs Elystvs, which runs 

 straight down to the Place <! In 

 Concorde, making an uninterrupted 

 vista across this to the Tuileries 

 gardens and the Louvre, nt I in- 

 famous streets include the arcaded 

 Rue de Rivoli, Rue St. Hop ore. 

 Rue Lafayette, Rue de la l'ai\. 

 Rue Royale, and the Avenues de 

 I'Opera and du Bois de Boulogne. 



There are several open spaces or 

 places of noble proportions.. The 

 Place de la Concorde, the finest, 

 took its present form in lv">4. the 

 Egyptian obelisk in tin- mitre 

 being raised in 1836. with two fine 



