Our country's flag and the flags of foreign countries (1898)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York : D. Appleton and company · leaf 157
126 THE FLAGS OP FOREIGN NATIONS. wars with the English, it became a red en-sign with a white cross. In later years theoriflamme gradually lost its national charac-ter, and the royal standard took its place. Itwas the kings standard that was advanced by the Maid of Or-leans (1429 -31);although she… … Fig. 47.—The arms of France—golden lilies on a blue field. 1179 his coat of armssprinkled with many fleurs-de-lisV, in 1364, reduced their number to three;and three fleurs-de-lis on an azure field hasbeen since then the royal shield of France.No one knows the reason for the adoptionof the…
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