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

city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Lamar county, See also:Texas, U.S.A., about 93 M. N.E. of See also:Dallas. Pop. (189o), 8254; (1900), 9358, of whom 3061 were negroes; (1910 See also:census), 11,269. It is served by the St See also:Louis & See also:San Francisco (of which it is a See also:terminus), the Gulf, See also:Colorado & See also:Santa Fe, the Texas & Pacific, and the Texas Midland See also:railways. The city has See also: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 See also:town in 1874, and chartered as a city in 1905.

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