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More]]>  The name Paris derives from that of its inhabitants,
the Gaulish tribe known as the Parisii (from the 3rd century
BC). The city was called Lutetia (more fully, Lutetia
Parisiorum, « Lutetia of the Parisii »), during the Roman
occupation of the 1st- to 6th-century, but during the reign of
Julian the Apostate (360–363) the city was renamed Paris.  Some
consider that the name of the Parisii tribe comes from the
Celtic Gallic word parisio meaning « the working people » or
« the stone breakers”. The  King Saint Louis encouraged the
legend of an ancestry of prince Pâris which kidnapped the
beautiful Hélene and provoked the Trojan War.  Paris has many
nicknames, but its most famous is « La Ville-Lumière » (« The
City of Light ») a name it owes first to its fame as a centre of
education and ideas during the Age of Enlighte