Abjat-sur-Bandiat

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ABJAT-SUR-BANDIAT

Département : Dordogne

[[File:Abjat-sur-Bandiat.jpg|center|300 px[[Category:|alt-Blason de Abjat-sur-Bandiat / Arms of Abjat-sur-Bandiat]]

Official blazon
French	D'azur au pont pointu d'argent de deux arches, maçonné de sable et posé sur une rivière de gueules, accompagné d'une guivre ondoyante d'or en barre en chef à dextre, d'un dextrochère de gueules mouvant de l'angle senestre, tenant un bâton péri en barre d'argent à senestre et d'une cloche du même en pointe.
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Origin/meaning

The arms were adopted in January 1980.

The arms are based on a local story and legend. The story goes that Francis Vaucoucourt, lord of the village, wanted to use his 'Lord's rights' to take a young girl from the hamlet of Fargeas. The people objected and revolted against Francis Vaucoucourt who lost his life in the fighting.

The consequences for the village were terrible, they were tortured, the markets were prohibited, the hall demolished, and the church bells were lowered from the church and removed.

This story was quickly transformed into legend through stories or popular ballads peddled in patois. In 1937 the legend was still alive and recorded. In the legend one of the bells rolled and fell to the bottom of the abyss at a place called Le Saut du Chalard. Since then, they say it sounds every Friday. As for the soul of the Belle of Fargeas, she appeared in the steeple of Abjat as a white lady. Vaucoucourt, meanwhile, took the form of a yellow snake and he hides under the bridge of the Charelle, where the inhabitants of Abjat hastened to disappear his body.

The arms thus show the bridge, bell and snake from the legend, and the arm as a symbol of the revolt and a stick against the snake.