Céret

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Official blazon
French	D'azur à deux clefs d'argent passées en sautoir et reliées par une chaîne du même ; au chef d'or chargé de quatre pals de gueules.
English	blazon wanted

Origin/meaning

The arms show the crossed keys of St. Peter, the local patron saint and a chief of Roussillon, the region in which the town is situated. Until the 1990s (?) the town used in the chief a fleur-de-lys for France instead of the Roussillon arms.

Image gallery

The arms by Hozier, 1696
The arms in Traversier (1842)
The arms in a publication from 1895
The arms in the Café Sanka album +/- 1932
The arms on a tobacco card by Laurens
The arms by Robert Louis, 1949

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