FRANCE, King of.

FRANCE, King of. Anciently azure, seme de-lis or. Modern (changed by Charles IV.). Axure, three fleurs-de-lis or, [sometimes impaling gules, a double orle, saltire and cross, composed of chains from an annulet in the centre point or, for Navarre], over the escocheon a helmet or, edged and damasked, all open, mantled, or, azure, and gules, surmounted with a royal crown. Supporters — Two angels standing on clouds, all proper, vested with tabards of the arms ; the dexter, France, the sinister, Navarre ; each holding a banner of the same arms, afifixed to a tilting-spear ; the shield encompassed with the ensigns of the orders of St Michael and of the Holy Ghost : the whole within a pavilion, the mantle azure semee of fleurs-de-lis or, lined with ermine, bordered, fringed, and tasselled or ; on the top of the pavilion a royal crown, the whole surmounted with a split waving streamer azure semee de lis or, charged with a sun of the last, tied to a pike or, terminated in a double fleur-de-lis ; over all, a scroll with this motto, " Montjoye et St Denis." The crest of France is a fleur-de-lis or.

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