orpheelin: A little moment of History. In few weeks, I’ll return to my beloved land, where I w
orpheelin: A little moment of History. In few weeks, I’ll return to my beloved land, where I was born. Here is the beautiful heraldry of my city Besançon. Its ancient name is “Vesontio” and comes from the gallo-roman period. The coat of arms was attribued to the town by Charles Quint in 1537. It is made by an black eagle (former bicephalous) because my land was a part of the big Holy Roman/German Empire and not a part of French Kingdom. The two red columns symbolize the roman ruins of Vesontio. Its motto is “UTINAM” (plaise à Dieu/please to God) I like this strong and beautiful heraldry and I like the story behind it. I’ve been interested into my city history for a long time and would like, one day to make a short comic about it. Every City in France has a great and heavy past, not only Paris. ^3^/ I would be really interrested to see the heraldry of the city where you were born ! -- source link