Chapter Parallel to Parisina of P by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Parisian Wedding (The). The massacre of St. Bartholomew, part of the wedding festivity at the marriage of Henri of Navarre and Margaret of France.

“Charles IX., although it was not possible for him to recall to life the countless victims of the Parisian Wedding, was ready to explain those murders to every unprejudiced mind.”- Motley: Dutch Republic, iii. 9.

Parisienne (La). A celebrated song by Casimir Delavigne, called the Marseillaise of 1830.

“Paris n'a plus qu'un cri de gloire;
En avant marchons,
Contre leurs canons.
A travers le feu des battaillons,
Courons a la victoire!”

Parisina the beautiful young wife of Azo. She falls in love with Hugo, her stepson, and betrays herself to her husband in a dream. Azo condemns his son to be executed, but the fate of Parisina, says Byron, is unknown. (Parisina.)
   Frizzi, in his History of Ferrara, tells us that Parisina Malatesta was the second wife of Niccolo, Marquis of Este; that she fell in love with Ogo, her stepson, and that the infidelity of Parisina was revealed by a servant named Zoese. He says that both Ogo and Parisina were beheaded, and that the marquis commanded all the faithless wives he knew to be beheaded to the Moloch of his passion.