Armorial bearings of France

The armorial bearings of France represented here are semi-official, the French Republic not having a official Armoiries. These armorial bearings are a composition of artist and not very orthodoxe from a heraldic point of view. It is about a whimsical shield all in width, the angles of the chief raised and finished by heads of lion (to dextral) and eagle (with sinistral), with letters RF (initial of French Republic) on a field in vertical stripes. This " écu" is posed on a beam of Licteur out of stake, the axe turned towards sinistral, like on two branches passed in saltire, olive-tree (symbol of peace) and Chêne (symbol of perenniality).

This composition is, at the origin, the work of the sculptor Jules-Clement Chaplain. It was used but semi-officially, under the III {{E}} République, by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, on July 29th, 1912.

It was taken again by the artist Robert Louis in 1953, at the request of an interdepartmental commission which meets on June 3rd, 1953, in order to answer at the request of the secretariat of the the United Nations which wished to decorate the room of assembly of panels reproducing the official armorial bearings of each Member State. In front of the difficulty of obtaining a satisfactory solution, this commission expressed the wish that the government can rule on the adoption of official armorial bearings of the IV {{E}} République, and decided that the French Republic would be, in waiting of a final solution, represented by “a composition pointing out that adopted by IIIe République for the diplomatic and consular stations abroad”.

Since the September 4th 1870, France does not have any more armorial bearings and no act of the capacity truly sanctioned the tests of the various services which wanted to make revive a changing Héraldique republican. In spite of that, the composition opposite is taken again on the cover of the Passeport S emitted by the French Republic.

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