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<center>''' {{uc:{{PAGENAME}}}} '''</center><br> | |||
'''Country''' : France [[File:France.jpg|60 px|right]]<br><br><br> | |||
'''Département''' : [[Pyrénées-Atlantiques]][[File:Pyrénées-Atlantiques.jpg|60 px|right]] | |||
{{#display_map:43.4917,-1.4754|width=250|height=250|zoom=7}} | |||
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|+Official blazon | |||
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|'''French''' | |||
| De gueules à la tour crénelée d'or, ouverte, ajourée et maçonnée de sable, posée sur une mer au naturel, ondée d'or et de sable, la tour supportée par deux lions affrontés d'or et brochant sur le fût de deux chênes au naturel englantés d'or et surmontée d'une fleur de lis d'or. | |||
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|'''English''' | |||
| blazon wanted | |||
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===Origin/meaning=== | |||
The arms were officially adopted on August 3, 1919. | |||
The tower in the arms symbolises the fortifications in the city, the lion is the symbol of the power to defend the fortress. The meaning of the oak trees I don't know. The sea indicates that the city is a harbour town. The fleur-de-lis is the symbol of the French Kings and the old arms of France. | |||
=== | Before 1919 the city used a canting bayonet as arms. | ||
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===Image gallery=== | |||
<gallery widths=250px heights=200px perrow=0> | |||
File:Bayonne1.jpg|alt=Blason de Bayonne/Arms (crest) of Bayonne|The arms in Hozier (1696) | |||
File:Bayonne-tr.jpg|alt=Blason de Bayonne/Arms (crest) of Bayonne|The arms in Traversier (1842) | |||
File:Bayonne1870.jpg|alt=Blason de Bayonne/Arms (crest) of Bayonne|The arms by Guilbert, 1853 | |||
File:Bayonne1895.jpg|alt=Blason de Bayonne/Arms (crest) of Bayonne|The arms in a publication from 1895 | |||
File:623b.wsa.jpg|alt=Blason de Bayonne/Arms (crest) of Bayonne|The arms in the [[Wappen-Sammlung Series 2 Cities and regions|Wappen-Sammlung]] (1900) | |||
File:bayonne.pcfr.jpg|alt=Blason de Bayonne/Arms (crest) of Bayonne|The arms on a pre-1910 postcard | |||
File:bayonne.hagfr.jpg|alt=Blason de Bayonne/Arms (crest) of Bayonne|The arms in the [[Café Sanka : La France Héraldique|Café Sanka album]] +/- 1932 | |||
File:bayonne.lau.jpg|alt=Blason de Bayonne/Arms (crest) of Bayonne|The arms on a tobacco card by [[Laurens (Villes de France) |Laurens]] | |||
File:bayonne.frba.jpg|alt=Blason de Bayonne/Arms (crest) of Bayonne|The arms on a postcard by [[Blasons adhésif (Villes et Provinces de France)|Kroma]] | |||
File:bayonne.bd.jpg|alt=Blason de Bayonne/Arms (crest) of Bayonne|The arms on a [[Barré Dayez Postcards|Barré Dayez Postcard]] | |||
File:fr-bayonne.jpg|alt=Blason de Bayonne/Arms (crest) of Bayonne|The arms on a cover, 1979 | |||
</gallery> | |||
[[Civic Heraldry Literature - France|'''Literature''']]: Image taken from [http://www.gaso.fr La banque du blason]( with permission) | |||
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{{media}} | {{media}} | ||
[[Category:French Municipalities B]] | [[Category:French Municipalities B]] | ||
[[Category:Pyrénées-Atlantiques]] | [[Category:Pyrénées-Atlantiques]] | ||
[[Category:Granted 1919]] | |||