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PARIS

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 823 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PARIS  , a

city and the county-seat of Lamar county,
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Texas, U.S.A., about 93 M . N.E. of Dallas . Pop . (189o), 8254; (1900), 9358, of whom 3061 were negroes; (1910 census), 11,269 . It is served by the St Louis &
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San Francisco (of which it is a
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terminus), the Gulf,
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Colorado &
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Santa Fe, the Texas & Pacific, and the Texas Midland
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railways . The city has cotton gins and a cotton compress, and various manufactures . In 1905 its factory products were valued at $854,930 . Paris was settled in 1841, incorporated as a
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town in 1874, and chartered as a city in 1905 .

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