Parisian may refer to:
- a person born and raised in Paris
- Standard French, based on the dialect of Paris
- Parisian (department store chain), a department store chain bought by Belk, based in Birmingham, Alabama
- Parisian (Bon-Ton), three department stores owned by Bon-Ton
- Parisian stitch, an embroidery stitch
- Pontiac Parisienne, a full-size rear-wheel drive vehicle
- a font designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1928
Famous quotes containing the word parisian:
“Well then! Wagner was a revolutionary—he fled the Germans.... As an artist one has no home in Europe outside Paris: the délicatesse in all five artistic senses that is presupposed by Wagner’s art, the fingers for nuances, the psychological morbidity are found only in Paris. Nowhere else is this passion in questions of form to be found, this seriousness in mise en scène—which is Parisian seriousness par excellence.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)