Chapter Paradise Regained to Paris in France of P by Brewer's Readers Handbook

promised him wisdom; but Venus said she would find him the most beautiful of women for wife, if he allotted to her the apple. Paris handed the apple to Venus.

Not Cytherea from a fairer swain
Received her apple on the Trojan plain.
   —Falconer: The Shipwreck, i. 3 (1756).

Paris, a young nobleman, kinsman of prince Escalus of Verona, and the unsuccessful suitor of his cousin Juliet.—Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (1598).

Paris (Notre Dame de), by Victor Hugo (1831). (See Esmeralda and Quasimodo.)

Paris in France. The French say, Il n’y a que Paris (“There is but one city in the world worth seeing, and that is Paris”). The Neapolitans have a similar phrase, Voir Naples et mourir.

The Paris of Japan, Osaka, south-west of Miako.—Gibson: Gallery of Geography, 926 (1872).

Little Paris. Brussels is so called. So is the “Galleria Vittorio Emanuele” of Milan, on account of its brilliant shops, its numerous cafés, and its general gaiety.