Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1907 — How Pari. Got Its Name. [ARTICLE]

How Pari. Got Its Name.

The ci# of Paris owes its origin to the conquest of Gaul by Caesar. When this Roman general on his path of conquest came to the present site of the French capital he found a swampy Island in the river Seine, which was inhabited by a Gallic tribe called Parisi!, who lived in huts made of rushes. Rather than be captured by the Romans, these people burned their rude city, which they called Lutetia, or “mud town,” and the great Caesar, quick to appreciate the situation, built a temple to Jupiter and a wall round the island. A town soon sprang up about the temple, hnd was named Parish, fitter the ancient trtbe. In later years this was shortened to Paris.