Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1919 — How Paris Was Named. [ARTICLE]

How Paris Was Named.

In 52 B'. C., w’hen Caesar conquered Gaul, Paris was called, in Gallic, Lutetia (Mud-town). At that time it was inhabited by a Cdltic tribe, the Parisii. They burned their town rather than surrender to Caesar, so that general ordered a new .town built at the same time, and called it after the trible, Parisii. This was the original form of the present name, Paris.