Note 41 — LETTER XXXIX.

In all Appearance, the Latin Name Lutetia comes from Leucothecia, which signifies white Town, a Name that Strabo gives to this City, the Houses of which were plaister’d. By Abbreviation it was call’d Lutetia. As to the Name Paris, ’tis certain, that it comes from Para-Isis, near Isis, a well-known Goddess, who had several Temples in this Canton; where she was so particularly worshipp’d, that from her Name the Inhabitants were call’d Para-Isians, the Neighbours of Isis. They, who have carefully examin’d the Gate of the Carmelites Church, and the Building of its Chapel, will own, that it was formerly the Temple of this Goddess; whose Statue, in Iron, holding a Handful of Ears of Corn, is still on the Front of the Building.