Coat of arms of the departments of France
This list shows the coats of arms of the departments of the Republic of France .
Most of the French departments do not have coats of arms, but logos that can change. Of the coats of arms listed in this list, only around a third are official, the others have no state character. The officially accepted coats of arms are also used in different ways and intensities: partly by all, partly by only a few authorities in the respective departments. In 1950 the French heraldist Robert Louis published his work "Symbolic Signs of the French Départments" ( Marques symboliques des départements français ), in which he proposed a coat of arms for each department. Some departmental councils ( conseils generaux ) adopted these proposals, others adopted other coats of arms, and many have still not used a coat of arms. In the coat of arms list of the French Wikipedia , the officially accepted coats of arms are highlighted in gray.
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01 Ain |
Description of the coat of arms: A white cloverleaf cross rests on the quartered coat of arms .
Symbolism: lion with ermine pattern on blue = Gex |
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02 Aisne |
Description of the coat of arms: A silver wave bar divides into gold with three blue diagonal bars and blue with silver diagonal bars and golden meanders on its sides. Symbolism: gold-blue diagonal bar = Grafschaft Ponthieu |
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03 Allier |
Description of the coat of arms: In blue seeded with golden lilies over which there is a red diagonal bar . Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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04 Alpes-de-Haute-Provence |
Description of the coat of arms: In blue under a three-lined red tournament collar, a golden lily over a silver raised shield base cut by three gouges . Symbolism: Tournament collar (bridge) |
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05 Hautes-Alpes |
Description of the coat of arms: Under a blue head with golden lilies , the shield is divided in red with a gold Tolosan cross and gold with a red-free blue dolphin inclined to the right. Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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06 Alpes-Maritimes |
Description of coat of arms: In silver a red crowned and armored red eagle with red clover stems on its chest stands on three black mountains, which lie above a blue shield base cut with two thorns and silver-bordered scales. Symbolism: eagle |
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07 Ardèche |
Description of the coat of arms: Around the coat of arms in blue with seeded golden lilies a golden border with eight blue shields . Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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08 Ardennes |
Description of coat of arms: In blue under a red shield head with three (2; 1) golden combs, a silver diagonal bar with golden meanders on its sides. A silver heart shield with a black boar lies on top. Symbolism: |
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09 Ariège |
Description of the coat of arms: Three red posts in gold above which a blue heart shield with a silver bell lies. |
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10 aube |
Description of the coat of arms: In blue under a golden shield head divided by a wave cut, a silver diagonal bar with golden meanders on its sides. Symbolism: wavy line = river Aube, |
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11 Aude |
Description of the coat of arms: A gold Tolosan cross in the red shield with a silver crenellated border . Symbolism: Cross of Toulouse = Languedoc |
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12 Aveyron |
Description of the coat of arms: In red a golden, silver-tongued lion looking out . Symbolism: lioned leopard = county of Rouergue |
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13 Bouches-du-Rhône |
Description of the coat of arms: In gold, a blue piece of drawbar in which a golden lily and a three- lipped red tournament collar hovers over everything. Symbolism: Tournament collar (bridge) |
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14 calvados |
Description of the coat of arms: The coat of arms divided into blue and red by a wave cut shows two running gold, blue-tongued and armored lions below . Symbolism: wavy line = Atlantic coast, |
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15 Cantal |
Description of coat of arms: In gold, a red, green-rimmed church flag on which a blue shield with a golden diagonal bar of six silver scallops lies on the edge of the shield. |
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16 Charente |
Description of coat of arms: The coat of arms is divided into blue and gold. There is a white wavy thread on the dividing line. Above under a three-lipped silver tournament collar a three (2.1) golden lilies and below with red roughened. Symbolism: Tournament collar (bridge) |
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17 Charente-Maritime |
Description of coat of arms: The coat of arms is split into blue and red. In front a silver miter between three (1; 2) golden lilies and behind with a gold-crowned golden quail standing to the left. Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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18 Cher |
Description of coat of arms: The coat of arms in blue with seeded golden lilies is surrounded by a red border in the cut. Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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19 Corrèze |
Description of coat of arms: The coat of arms is quartered .
Symbolism: Leo = Aquitaine, |
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2A (20A) Corse-du-Sud |
Description of the coat of arms: In silver, a Moor's head with fluttering ends on a white headband Symbolism: Mohrenkopf = Corsican symbol of freedom |
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2B (20B) Upper Corsica |
Description of the coat of arms: In silver, a Moor's head with fluttering ends on a white headband Symbolism: Mohrenkopf = Corsican symbol of freedom |
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21 Côte-d'Or |
Description of the coat of arms: The gold coat of arms has a split shield head , the right side of which has a red and white carved border in blue with seeded golden lilies and on the left in gold three blue diagonal bars with a red border. Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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22 Côtes-d'Armor |
Description of coat of arms: The divided coat of arms is cut with two thorns in blue and ermine. |
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23 Creuse |
Description of the coat of arms: In blue with seeded golden lilies, a red diagonal right-hand bar , on which three silver lions are occupied after the figure. Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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24 Dordogne |
Description of coat of arms: In red three (2; 1) golden, blue-armored, blue-crowned and blue-tongued lions |
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25 doubs |
Description of coat of arms: The coat of arms is divided into gold and blue with a wave cut. A gold-crowned, growing, red-armored and red-tongued golden lion sown above with golden shingles and below a blue wavy bar . |
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26 Drôme |
Description of coat of arms: The coat of arms is divided into gold and blue. Above with a red-faced blue dolphin inclined to the right and below a silver wave bar |
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27 yours |
Description of coat of arms: The coat of arms is divided. Above in red are two running gold, blue-tongued and blue-tongued lions . and below in blue with seeded golden lilies ; above a slanting three times silver-red bar . Symbolism: Leo = Normandy |
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28 Eure-et-Loir |
Description of coat of arms: The coat of arms is wavy in blue with three (2; 1) golden lilies under a three-lined tournament collar and white with three red rafters . divided. Symbolism: Tournament collar (bridge) |
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29 Finistère |
Description of the coat of arms: Under a head with five ermine tails, the shield is split in gold and blue. In front a black lion raised to the left and behind a raised gold-armored ram. |
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30 Gard |
Description of the coat of arms: Under the silver head of the shield there is a golden Tolosan cross with a thorn cut off in red . Symbolism: Cross of Toulouse = Languedoc |
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31 Haute-Garonne |
Description of the coat of arms: In red a gold Tolosan cross with four silver almonds . in the angles. Symbolism: Cross of Toulouse = Languedoc |
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32 Gers |
Description of coat of arms: A red, blue-armored and blue-tongued lion raised in silver |
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33 Gironde |
Description of the coat of arms: Under the red head of the shield with a running, gold, blue-armored and blue-tongued lion in silver, a blue stand . |
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34 Hérault |
Description of the coat of arms: In silver, a red circle with a gold Tolosan cross . Symbolism: Cross of Toulouse = Languedoc |
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35 Ille-et-Vilaine |
Description of the coat of arms: The ermine shield has two blue wave poles. Symbolism: Ermine = Brittany |
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36 Indre |
Description of coat of arms: The blue shield with three (2; 1) golden lilies is divided by a white wavy bar and a red border with thorns . edged. Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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37 Indre-et-Loire |
Coat of arms Description: The coat of arms in blue with seeded golden lilies is from a twelvefold red-white gestückten board . surround. Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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38 Isère |
Description of coat of arms: The coat of arms is divided into blue and gold. Above a silver wave bar and. below with a red-faced blue dolphin leaning to the right Symbolism: Dolphin = Dauphiné |
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39 Jura |
Description of the coat of arms: The coat of arms is divided into blue and white and a gold-crowned, growing, red-armored and red-tongued golden lion is sown with golden shingles . A red bar at the bottom of the division . with three tips pointing downwards. |
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40 Landes |
Description of coat of arms: The coat of arms is quartered in blue and red. In the blue fields per three golden lilies and red an ongoing golden guardant blue reinforced and blaugezungter lion . Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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41 Loir-et-Cher |
Description of the coat of arms: The coat of arms is divided into blue and gold by a wave cut. Above two golden lilies under a silver three-legged tournament collar and below a blue lily. Symbolism: Tournament collar (bridge) |
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42 Loire |
Description of coat of arms: In red a golden dolphin leaning to the right Symbolism: Dolphin = Dauphiné |
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43 Haute-Loire |
Description of the coat of arms: In the red shield, a blue cloud breaks out towards the middle . a white left arm with a golden bishop's staff and behind a white right arm with a gold-tipped white sword protruding from a blue cloud. |
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44 Loire-Atlantique |
Description of coat of arms: A blue wavy bar over an ermine shield |
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45 Loiret |
Description of the coat of arms: In the blue shield with a white wavy bar there are two golden lilies next to each other under a silver three-lipped tournament collar and one below. Symbolism: Tournament collar (bridge) |
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46 lot |
Description of the coat of arms: In red, a silver, black-grooved stone bridge with six arches over a blue wave shield base . On the bridge there are five silver, black-jointed, five-pinned towers, rising towards the middle of the bridge, with open arches, above each of which a golden lily hovers at the same distance. |
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47 Lot-et-Garonne |
Description of the coat of arms: In red a running, golden, blue-armored and blue-tongued lion looking out between two narrow white wavy bars . |
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48 Lozère |
Description of the coat of arms: The coat of arms is split in blue with seeded golden lilies and gold with four red stakes . Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France, |
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49 Maine-et-Loire |
Description of coat of arms: The blue shield is split. Two golden lilies are red bordered at the front , one at the gap and at the back a red patriarchal cross with gold rims Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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50 Some |
Description of coat of arms: The coat of arms is split in blue and red by a wave cut. Two running, gold-looking, blue-armored and blue-tongued lions are placed on stakes. |
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51 Marne |
Coat of arms description: The coat of arms is in blue with a silver bar and golden meanders on its sides. |
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52 Haute-Marne |
Description of coat of arms: The coat of arms is in blue with a silver pole and golden meanders on its sides |
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53 Mayenne |
Coat of arms Description: The coat of arms with red board is blue with a golden hersehenden lion on a golden lily. A wave stake in ermine lies over everything. |
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54 Meurthe-et-Moselle |
Description of coat of arms: In gold, a red diagonal right-hand bar covered with three mutilated silver eagles, accompanied by two blue wavy strips diagonally to the right. |
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55 Meuse |
Description of the coat of arms: In blue with pointed golden cross-crosses, two oppositely facing vertical golden fish are sown . |
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56 Morbihan |
Description of coat of arms: Divided into ermine and blue by a wave cut |
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57 Moselle |
The coat of arms is quartered.
A heart shield split in silver and black lies on the shield. |
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58 Nièvre |
The coat of arms with a red thorn border is blue with two golden diagonal bars |
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59 north |
In gold, a red-tongued and armored black lion . |
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60 oise |
With an oblique silver oblique left bar , the shield is divided in gold with three blue oblique bars and in blue with seeded golden lilies . Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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61 Orne |
The coat of arms, which is divided into red and blue, has two running golden lions facing blue-armored and blue-tongued at the top and three (2; 1) golden lilies at the bottom surrounded by a red border with eight white balls Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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62 Pas-de-Calais |
The coat of arms with golden board and three red balls is in blue with seeded golden lilies one to the board reaching red dreilätzigen tournament collar with three golden crenellated three-towered red forts with open golden pass on these. Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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63 Puy-de-Dôme |
In gold, a red, green-rimmed church flag on which lies a gplden shield with a griffin divided in red and green on the hip . |
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64 Pyrénées-Atlantiques |
The coat of arms is quartered.
Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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65 Hautes-Pyrénées |
In gold, two running red, blue-armored and blue-tongued lions . |
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66 Pyrénées-Orientales |
Four red posts in gold . Symbolism: red vertical stripes = Catalonia |
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67 Bas-Rhin |
In red, a silver diagonal bar with a silver lily band on both sides. |
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68 Haut-Rhin |
In red a golden oblique bar of three (2; 1) golden lily crowns with the tire side accompanying it. |
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69 Rhône |
The coat of arms is split in red and gold. In front over a silver lion a blue shield head with three golden lilies in the manner of a beam and behind a red-armored and red-tongued black lion on which a five-tipped red tournament collar lies. Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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70 Haute-Saône |
The coat of arms is studded in blue with golden shingles, a gold-crowned, red- armored and red- tongued golden lion with a lying silver crescent moon at paw height under a red shield head with a white wavy bar . |
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71 Saône-et-Loire |
The golden heraldic shield with two blue wave stakes has a split shield head , the right side of which is in blue with a red and white carved border in blue with seeded golden lilies and on the left in gold three blue diagonal bars with a red border . Has Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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72 Sarthe |
The coat of arms in blue with seeded golden lilies is surrounded by a red border with a silver lion in the right boardeck. Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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73 Savoie |
In red a broad, common silver cross reaching to the edge of the shield - Symbolism: cross = Savoy |
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74 Haute-Savoie |
In blue, a white top with a red shield in which a silver until reaching the edge wicked cross is. |
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75 Paris |
A single-masted silver boat in red with a billowing sail; above a shield head in blue with seeded golden lilies . Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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76 Seine-Maritime |
In red there are two running, golden, blue-armored and blue-tongued lions that look out and that are separated by a silver wavy bar . |
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77 Seine-et-Marne |
Two silver wavy bars in blue with golden lilies seeded . Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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78 Yvelines |
In blue with seeded golden lilies, two silver oblique wavy bars . Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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79 Deux-Sèvres |
Two silver wavy beams in red with two golden tinned towers and an open golden passage above, one between and two below them. |
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80 somme |
In the quartered shield there is a white thread on the dividing line. Fields one and four are blue with three (2; 1) golden lilies each and fields two and three have three (2; 1) golden lions in red Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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81 camouflage |
In gold, a red shield main post with a gold Tolosan cross in the head. |
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82 Tarn-et-Garonne |
In red, two running, blue-armored and blue-tongued lions, looking forward, over a gold Tolosan cross . |
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83 var |
In gold, a blue turned tip with a golden lily under a three- lined red tournament collar Symbolism: Tournament collar (bridge) |
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84 Vaucluse |
The red and blue gevierten emblem shows the first field , the binding key and gold in the fourth directing three key with the beard down and to divide, in the third a golden lily and in the fourth field a green branch with gold spherical fruits under a golden shield main with a blue hip horn . Symbolism: Tournament collar (bridge) |
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85 Vendée |
Two red entwined hearts in silver with a crenellated crown and a rising cross surrounded by a blue-red border. In blue a golden lily and in red a golden tinned three-tower castle with a golden passage. Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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86 Vienne |
There are five (2; 1; 2) golden tinned three-tower forts with a golden passage in red with a white wave pole. |
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87 Haute-Vienne |
On a shield filled with ermine with a red border, a double-width blue wave bar up to the edges of the shield. |
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88 Vosges |
The green coat of arms has a larger golden shield head in which a red diagonal right-hand bar with three silver alérions is placed after the figure and below a low silver tip with a torn green fir tree is accompanied by two silver ones torn out. Symbolism: sloping bar with Alérion = Lorraine |
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89 yonne |
The golden heraldic shield with the blue drawbar has a split shield head , the right side of which has a red and white carved border in blue with seeded golden lilies and three blue diagonal bars with a red border on the left in gold Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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90 Territoire de Belfort |
In blue there are three golden twin bars above which a golden tinned tower with an open passage and golden pennant waving to the left lies on the top. |
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91 Essonne |
In the blue shield there is a white diagonal bar above which a golden sun shines with thin rays, on which disorganized golden balls of different sizes and numbers are stuck. The field below the beam is covered with golden lilies . Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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92 Hauts-de-Seine |
Under the silver head of the shield with the blue wavy bar , the shield is split in blue with a golden lily and in red with a single-masted silver boat with a billowing sail. Symbolism: Wavy bar = River Seine |
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93 Seine-Saint-Denis |
Sown in blue with golden lilies and divided into red. At the bottom three golden ears of corn over a slightly curved, overturned silver tip. A silver gear with a large round opening lies on the dividing line. Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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94 Val-de-Marne |
In gold, a blue overturned tip, studded with golden lilies , in which lies a fallen silver corrugated rafter. Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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95 Val-d'Oise |
A golden Alérion in red above a slanting silver wave bar and a golden slender anchor cross below it . A blue border with ten golden lilies surrounds everything. Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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971 Guadeloupe |
In the black shield, a faceless golden sun on a green plant frond lying obliquely to the right under a blue shield head with three golden lilies . Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = Kingdom of France |
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972 Martinique |
In the blue shield quartered with a white cross there is a white coiled snake in all fields . Symbolism: snakes |
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973 French Guiana |
Description of the coat of arms: The coat of arms is divided twice in blue, red and green irregularly with waves and waves. In the upper field three golden lilies are placed in bars under the golden year 1643. The middle field shows a brown boat with a large gold mountain and two narrow paddles. In the third field are three (2; 1) white natural water lilies with black clumps . Symbolism: Fleur-de-Lys = France |
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974 Réunion |
The coat of arms of Réunion , a French overseas department , shows a quartered shield.
On all of them there is a heart shield with the French colors and shows the entwined capital letters "R" and "F" for République française (Republic of France) in the white pole in gold. |
Web links
- Coat of arms of French Provinces (Départements) (English coat of arms descriptions)