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PARIS 



city suffered ;i terrible siege in the Franco-Ger- 

 man War. when the inhabitants were starved 

 into surrender. During the opening months of 

 the War of the Nations (which see) it was the 

 chief objective of the German invaders, and 

 was saved from siege-gun bombardment only 

 by tin- outcome of the Battle of the Marne, 

 fought forty miles away. In 1911 it had a 

 population of 2,888,110. B.M.W. 



.It H-;nlla rn's France, in The Making of 



Smith's Ticcntit Crntnrica of 



Old /'aria: Ita Historic Build- 



PARIS, a town in Brant County, Ontario. 

 - on the (Irand River and on the Grand 

 Trunk. Lake line & Northern and Grand Val- 

 ley Fleet ric railways. By rail it is thirty miles 

 i Hamilton, fourteen miles from Gait and 

 miles from Brantford. Paris is often 

 .I the most beautiful town in Ontario. It 

 i public library, and owns its electric light - 

 ;ns. Paris is a manufactur- 

 ing community, its chief products being knitted 

 goods, shirts. ho.-iery. agricultural machinery 

 ami .-hell.-. The International Harvester Com- 

 pany employs about 2,000 men and women. 

 <1 in 1850, and was incorporated 

 in the same year. It suffered a heavy loss by 

 fire in 1900. Population in 1911, 4,098; in 1916, 

 about .~>.()00. 



PARIS, in Greek legend, the second son of 

 Priam, king of Troy. His mother, having 

 ned that he would cause the destruction 

 of the city, decided that he should be left to 

 li on Mount Ida; but the sen-ant to whom 

 >ln- had intrusted the duty of leaving the child 

 took it home and reared it as his own >oti. nam- 

 ing it Pan-. A.- lie mew to young manhood 

 Of his courage and skill 



in protecting the shepherds from robbers, and 

 they g.ive him the name of Alexander, which 

 us man pr< While on Mount Ida. lie 



waa mam* d to the beautiful nymph Oenone. 

 By I. of tin- Apple of Discord to Venn-, 



lie brought upon lum-elf the enmity of Juno 

 and Miinrva. who followed him per>i.-tently 

 and brought d 'ueni and mi-foiiune to 



rid In- whole race. 

 Soon alter this unsatisfactory award King 



::i propn- /. to the win- 



sts the most bcau- 



tiftil bull in This animal was 



1 in the possession < 



t<, Troj . ind 'ikum \ !.- 



uivd i,..i i di-tmnuiahed 



him-* If > own brothers. 



This so angered Hector that that prince would 

 have slain Paris had not Cassandra identified 

 him as the son of Priam, and her own brother. 

 Forgetting the misfortunes that Paris was to 

 bring to his country, Priam adopted him. and 

 shortly afterward sent him on a \ 

 Greece, although Cassandra had prophesied that 

 nothing but misfortune would come of the < \- 

 pedition. Here Venus remembered her proi 



\e him the most beautiful woman on earth 

 a- his wife, and sent him to the palace of 

 Mmelaus. where he found Helen, and during 

 the absence of her husband, the king, won her 

 affections. Out of this grew the Trojan War. 

 Though Paris distinguished himself in that con- 

 flict, he was always treacherous and regarded as 

 more or less effeminate. It was he who killed 

 the heroic Achilles, who had come on the in- 

 vitation of Priam to the temple of Jupiter to ask 

 for the hand of Polyxena. Paris was wounded 

 by the arrows of Philoctetes and fled to his for- 

 mer wife, Oenone, who had promised to cure 

 him if he was wounded, but she was so angered 

 at his desertion that she refused to aid him, 

 and Paris died in agony. Then Oenone re- 

 pented and threw herself upon his funeral pyre 

 and was burned. 



Related Subject**. The reader is referred to 

 the following articles in these volumes: 

 Hector M.-m-laus 



Helen of Troy Troy 



PARIS, imrn '. Loi is Ai.m.i.T Pmun 

 I.KVNS, Count of (1838-1894), a claimant of the 

 throne of France, and the second titled French- 

 man to volunteer service in the cause of 

 America. He was born in Pan-, the son of the 

 Duke of Orleans, and grandson of Kum Loui- 

 Philippe. After his father's accidental death in 

 1842 he became heir apparent to the throne. 

 At the outbreak of the War of Secession in 

 1861, in company with his brother, the Due de 

 Chartres, he sailed for America, and following 

 the example of Lafayette in the Revolutionary 

 War. offered his nrviOM in America'- 1>. hal, 

 II iomed the staff of General McClellan of the 

 Federal army, and as a captain of volum 



d with bravery at the Battle : 

 Mill, in 1862. During the latter part of that 



he n turned to F.ngland. and in 

 -mned his claim to tin- French throne. The 

 Act of Expulsion, a measure passed in 1886 by 

 the French republican him to ! 



Mil lie afteiUMld 1 1 \ 



1 ,M,|. in iswh, n risited the r nit ,-d States. 

 II inef pubh-hi'd work is a Hitlory vj 

 Citfil \\'nr in Ai< 



