Parisians

And forasmuch as, at this imposition of a new name, all the people that were there swore everyone by the Sancts of his parish, the Parisians, which are patched up of all nations and all pieces of countries, are by nature both good jurors and good jurists, and somewhat overweening; whereupon Joanninus de Barrauco, libro de copiositate reverentiarum, thinks that they are called Parisians from the Greek word Greek, which signifies boldness and liberty in speech.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

I know a little bit about Parisians from a previous life.

Article on San Miguel 2006

Sometimes the sharpness can turn to a vinegary sourness and the command of wit to cutting cruelty and the elegance of expression to a stony-hearted conventionality and wish to destroy eccentricity (one of the things most dreaded by Parisians is to be made to look ridiculous, for in so doing one loses one’s social status — when you might as well be dead, as far as Parisians are concerned!)

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » A love of words 2010

The French, or I should say, the Parisians are the most elegant in the world.

Mara Gibbs: Everybody Sleeps Where? In Paris, For Luxury, Hotel Plaza Athenee Mara Gibbs 2011

The French, or I should say, the Parisians are the most elegant in the world.

Mara Gibbs: Everybody Sleeps Where? In Paris, For Luxury, Hotel Plaza Athenee Mara Gibbs 2011

The French, or I should say, the Parisians are the most elegant in the world.

Mara Gibbs: Everybody Sleeps Where? In Paris, For Luxury, Hotel Plaza Athenee Mara Gibbs 2011

As the price of oil rises, rolling windows down and bicycle sharing like the Parisians is a better way to lose a couple pounds than a fad diet.

The Greenwash Brigade: January 2008 Archives 2008

I despise the French and from what I have heard of them the Parisians are the worst of all: the customer service of the Dutch, the charisma of Belgians and the narcissism of the Americans.

Make Wit not Wi Fi Ms Robinson 2008

As the price of oil rises, rolling windows down and bicycle sharing like the Parisians is a better way to lose a couple pounds than a fad diet.

Tata Nano Revolution (Part I): environmental mitigation in an unequal world | The Greenwash Brigade | Marketplace from American Public Media 2008

We might ask those who maintain that climate does everything, why the Emperor Julian, in his “Misopogon,” says that what pleased him in the Parisians was the gravity of their characters and the severity of their manners; and why these

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007