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'''PAU'''


Département : [[Pyrénées-Atlantiques]]
Département : [[Pyrénées-Atlantiques]]


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[[File:pau.jpg|center|350 px|Blason de {{PAGENAME}}/Coat of arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME]]
====Origin/meaning====
The peacock in the arms is canting, from Paon or Paou. The cows are taken from the arms of the former Duchy of Béarn to which the city belonged. The oldest known use of the arms dates from 1680. The chief was added in 1829 as a memory to King Henri IV, who founded the royal family of the Bourbons.


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|align="center"|[[File:pau.hagfr.jpg|center]]  <br/>The arms in the  [[Café Sanka : La France Héraldique|Café Sanka album]] +/- 1932
|+Official blazon
|align="center"|[[File:pau.lau.jpg|250 px|center]]  <br/>The arms on a tobacco card by [[Laurens (Villes de France) |Laurens]]
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|'''French'''
| D'azur à la barrière de trois pals, aux pieds fichés d'argent, sommée d'un paon rouant d'or et accompagnée en pointe et à l'intérieur de deux vaches affrontées et couronnées de même ; au chef d'or chargé d'une écaille de tortue au naturel, surmontée d'une couronne d'azur rehaussée d'or et accompagnée à dextre de la lettre capitale H et à senestre du nombre quatre en chiffres romains, le tout d'azur.
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|align="center"|[[File:pau.gif|250 px|center]]  <br/>Image taken from [http://www.gaso.fr La banque du blason]
|'''English'''
| blazon wanted
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===Origin/meaning===
The peacock in the arms is canting, from Paon or Paou. The cows are taken from the arms of the former Duchy of Béarn to which the city belonged. The oldest known use of the arms dates from 1680. The chief was added in 1829 as a memory to King Henri IV, who founded the royal family of the Bourbons.
===Image gallery===
<gallery widths=250px heights=200px perrow=0>
File:Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)-tr.jpg|alt=Blason de Pau/Arms (crest) of Pau|The arms in Traversier (1842)
File:Pau1895.jpg|alt=Blason de Pau/Arms (crest) of Pau|The arms in a publication from 1895
File:pau.hagfr.jpg|alt=Blason de Pau/Arms (crest) of Pau|The arms in the  [[Café Sanka : La France Héraldique|Café Sanka album]] +/- 1932
File:pau.lau.jpg|alt=Blason de Pau/Arms (crest) of Pau|The arms on a tobacco card by [[Laurens (Villes de France) |Laurens]]
File:pau.gif|alt=Blason de Pau/Arms (crest) of Pau|Image taken from [http://www.gaso.fr La banque du blason]
File:pau.frba.jpg|alt=Blason de Pau/Arms (crest) of Pau|The arms on a postcard by [[Blasons adhésif (Villes et Provinces de France)|Kroma]]
</gallery>
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[[Literature]] : Image by Massimo Ghirardi
[[Civic Heraldry Literature - France|'''Literature''']]: Image by Massimo Ghirardi


[[Category:French Municipalities P]]
[[Category:French Municipalities P]]
[[Category:Pyrénées-Atlantiques]]
[[Category:Pyrénées-Atlantiques]]

Latest revision as of 14:18, 7 January 2024

PAU

Département : Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Blason de Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)/Coat of arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME
Official blazon
French D'azur à la barrière de trois pals, aux pieds fichés d'argent, sommée d'un paon rouant d'or et accompagnée en pointe et à l'intérieur de deux vaches affrontées et couronnées de même ; au chef d'or chargé d'une écaille de tortue au naturel, surmontée d'une couronne d'azur rehaussée d'or et accompagnée à dextre de la lettre capitale H et à senestre du nombre quatre en chiffres romains, le tout d'azur.
English blazon wanted

Origin/meaning

The peacock in the arms is canting, from Paon or Paou. The cows are taken from the arms of the former Duchy of Béarn to which the city belonged. The oldest known use of the arms dates from 1680. The chief was added in 1829 as a memory to King Henri IV, who founded the royal family of the Bourbons.

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