Paris Definition–noun
| 3. | a city in NE Texas. 25,498. |
| 4. | a town in NW Tennessee. 10,728. |
| 5. | Treaty of, | a. | a treaty signed in 1763 by France, Spain, and Great Britain that ended the Seven Years' War and the French and Indian War. |
| b. | a treaty signed in 1783 by the United States and Great Britain that ended the American Revolution. |
| c. | a treaty signed in 1898 by the United States and Spain that ended the Spanish-American War. |
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city and capital of France, located in the north-central part of the country. People were living on the site of the present-day city, located along the Seine River some 233 miles (375 km) upstream ...
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in Greek legend, son of King Priam of Troy and his wife, Hecuba. A dream regarding his birth was interpreted as an evil portent, and he was consequently expelled from his family as an infant. Left ...
Paris
city, seat of Bourbon county, north-central Kentucky, U.S. It lies on the South Fork Licking River, about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Lexington, in the Bluegrass region. First settled about 1775, ...
Paris
city, seat (1844) of Lamar county, northeastern Texas, U.S., on a ridge between the Red and Sulphur rivers, some 105 miles (170 km) northeast of Dallas. Laid out in 1845 and named for Paris, France, ...
Paris Observatory
national astronomical observatory of France, under the direction of the Academy of Sciences. It was founded by Louis XIV at the instigation of J.-B. Colbert, and construction at the site in Paris ...
Paris, Commune of
(1871), insurrection of Paris against the French government from March 18 to May 28, 1871. It occurred in the wake of France's defeat in the Franco-German War and the collapse of Napoleon III's ...
Bordone, Paris
Renaissance Venetian painter of religious, mythological, and anecdotal subjects.Paris, Matthew
English Benedictine monk and chronicler, known largely only through his voluminous and detailed writings, which constitute one of the most important sources of knowledge of events in Europe between ...
Germanus
abbot, bishop, one of France's most revered saints, who was an important, though unsuccessful, mediator in the fratricidal conflicts among several Merovingian kings.Paris I-XIII, Universities of
universities founded in 1970 under France's 1968 Orientation Act, reforming higher education. They replaced the former University of Paris, one of the archetypal European universities, founded about ...
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