Re: Tour de France 2016
Posted: 19 Jul 2016, 10:13
Today, Tuesday, is a rest day for the cyclists, and as those of us who have followed them on Eurosport will attest, boy do they need it!
No rest for your President however. I thought I would show you the simple, yet rather clever arms of the town of Saint-Aubin-Sauges, which is near Neuchatel:
Try to blazon it as a single coat and it isn't easy. Try it! But the solution, at least according to Wiki, is to treat it as two arms impaled:
It may be, though I can find no evidence of it - yet - that one of the impaled arms was that of Saint-Aubin and the other of Sauges, prior to their merger in 1888.
No rest for your President however. I thought I would show you the simple, yet rather clever arms of the town of Saint-Aubin-Sauges, which is near Neuchatel:
Try to blazon it as a single coat and it isn't easy. Try it! But the solution, at least according to Wiki, is to treat it as two arms impaled:
Impaled, per pale Argent and Gules a Rose counterchanged, and per pale Argent three bars Gules and Gules a Rose counterchanged.
It may be, though I can find no evidence of it - yet - that one of the impaled arms was that of Saint-Aubin and the other of Sauges, prior to their merger in 1888.