E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Paris-Garden.
A bear-garden; a noisy, disorderly place. In allusion to the bear-garden so called on the Thames bank-side, kept by Robert de Paris in the reign of Richard II.
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“Do you take the court for a Paris-garden?”—Shakespeare: Henry VIII., v. 3.
