Paris of the East

== English == === Etymology === Usually a calque of French Paris de l'Orient, praising a location for its supposed resemblance to the glamor and nightlife of 19th-century Paris. === Noun === the Paris of the East (usually uncountable, plural Parises of the East) A major city that is considered as magnificent or culturally significant as Paris. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Paris of the East. === Proper noun === the Paris of the East (dated) Former nickname for Bucharest: the capital and largest city of Romania. (dated) Former nickname for Casablanca: a major city in Morocco. (obsolete) Former nickname for Lahore: a major city in modern Pakistan; in use during the time of the British Raj. (dated) Former nickname for Phnom Penh: the capital and largest city of Cambodia. (dated) Former nickname for Hanoi: a major city in Vietnam. (dated) Former nickname for Shanghai: a major port city and direct-administered municipality of China. 1934 — Anon., All About Shanghai: A Standard Guidebook, The University Press, Shanghai. 1983 reed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, →ISBN. p. 73; What odds whether Shanghai is the Paris of the East or Paris the Shanghai of the Occident ? For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Paris of the East. ==== Translations ==== === References === Peter Soppelsa, "How Haussmann's Hegemony Haunted the Early Third Republic", Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century?, 2017.