The truth of history is often best found in those traces overlooked by those who seek to bend historical narratives in order to favor their own ends. The city of Paris is a good case in point. We can start with the name “Paris,” which is pronounced “Par-ee” by native French speakers in a way that could be translated to mean “The house of Isis” in the language of the Ancient Egyptians. In the First century B.C.E., Julius Caesar wrote in Chapter 57 of Book 7 of “The Gallic Wars” that one of his generals took four legions “to Lutetia...

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