Leave to the discovery of the blazons of Paris and follow its currency " Fluctuat nec mergitur ", what means " He is beaten by streams, but does not sink ". Its balson evokes Scilicet, vessel and symbol of the powerful corporation of Nautes or the Traders of the water, manager of the municipality in the Middle Age. Its complete representation, it also contains the decorations that the city was authorized to make represent in its coats of arms, the Legion of Honour (decree of October 9th, 1900), the Croix de guerre 1914-1918 (decree of July 28th, 1919) and the cross of the Liberation (decree of March 24th, 1945). It is surmounted by a wall golden crown in five towers, and framed in right hand of a branch of oak and in sénestre of one of laurel. The currency is classically registered down. The blazon of Paris, under its current shape, date of 1358, time when king Charles V gave the leader sowed with flowers of lily. A nef, or a vessel, appear to have been of any time the symbol of the corporation of the traders of the water, which gave then birth to the municipality of Paris. It was necessary to wait for the First Empire so that cities are again officially authorized to be equipped with coats of arms. We find himit on numerous Parisian public equipments, among which the city hall, the city halls of district, the Parisian stations, bridges, schools and Parisian schools, fountains Wallace, theatre publicity displays and the other Parisian urban furnitures.
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Blazon sculptured in pediment of the swimming pool of Butte-aux-Cailles one of the most old swimming pools of Paris. Fed by an artésien well conceived by François Arago, giving access to a water in 28 °C since 1893, the swimming pool was conceived by the architect Louis Bonnier and built between 1922 and 1924 in addition of ancient public baths dating 1908. The sanitary considerations and of hygiene, news in this time, were taken into account, with for example the passage obliged by the bathers by showers and pédiluve. The facade of the swimming pool is in red bricks, unusual material in Paris for this type of établisement, in a style Art nouveau. It is registered in conformance with ancient memorials since an order of July 31st, 1990.
Blazon of Paris decorating the plate of name of the public garden Marie-Curie. This public garden pays tribute to the scientist Marie Curie. It extends over a surface of 4 091 m2 and was fitted out in 1931. The plates of name of Paris have of the different styles is uniform as a rule within a district or within a locality. They are normally accompanied in plates indicating the numbering of every building in the way. Street plates can be made in any sorts of materials: metal, stone, ceramic, etc.
Blazon, 12, rue de la Banque. This street, possessed the former south-north branch of the passage of Youngs-fathers, opened in 1779, through the hotel Broth. This branch is extended in 1844 up to the place de la Bourse. At first named rue Percée, it takes its current name, because beginning in front of the hotel of Toulouse, the siege of the Bank of France. In N 5 of the street is a commemorative tablet of the place of death of Louis Antoine de Bougainville. In N 8 of the street is the City hall of the 2nd district of Paris. On November 16th, 1943, the Gestapo arrested, on denunciation, Jacques Bidaut, General Secretary of the city hall there. This one supplied false papers, ration coupons, virgin official documents to diverse groups of Resistance fighters. He dies to the camp of Neuengamme, on December 4th, 1944. Just opposite, of N ° 9 - 13, the old Hotel of the Stamp and the Recording, imposing building which we owe to the architect Victor Baltard, who sheltered until 1974 the last big industrial activity of the district.
The facade, of style neorevival, is widely inspired by that of the disappeared building. It is ornamented by striking persons of the city of Paris, artists, scholars, politicians, manufacturers. The former city hall enlarged under Louis-Philippe had already been decorated with statues in foot representing the illustrious men of the capital. They were destroyed for the greater part during the Municipality of Paris. After the reconstruction of the City hall, in more important dimensions, new statues, much more numerous, are commanded to decorate facades and inner courtyards.
Coats of arms of Paris on the wall of the station Hôtel de Ville of the line 1 of the subway. Blazon situated under the street of Rivoli and under the street of Renard, in the 4th district of Paris. In 2004, it was the fourteenth station the most frequented by the network. Near the access to the quays of the line 1, a patch commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the gréve of 3000 agents of the Company of the Underground of Paris on August 16th, 1944.
Blazon of Paris sculptured on the school of the street of the Providence. Formerly superior national School of telecommunications, Telecom Paris and College of telegraphy, it is engineers' French, non-specialized public grande école in the field of the information technologies of the communication based in 1878. The street of the Providence is a way opened in 1895 and is so mentioned by a local owner, Mr Guilbey.
Blazon, with oars, on the school of the street Damesme. The street Damesme, is a way, known about the xviie century on the municipality of Gentilly under the name of old road of Lyon, it is incorporated into 1863 in the city of Paris during the annexation of the zone. In 1876, it is connected by the opening of a new section with the street of Tolbiac during the percement of this last one and takes the name of the brigadier Édouard Adolphe Déodat Marie Damesme ( 1807-1848 ) which was lethally damaged during the attack of the Pantheon of Paris during the Days of June, 1848.
Blazon situated over the railing of entrance of the school Estienne, the common naming of the College of the arts and the graphic industries ( ESAIG), is a superior educational establishment. It forms young creators in the professions by the printing office, by the design of communication and by the art professions of the book. It is on proposition of the anthropologist and the linguist Abel Hovelacque that the city of Paris adopts in 1887 the project of creation of a professional municipal school of arts and graphic industries. It has for object the professional training of the professions by the book, in all their practical and theoretical aspects. Its purpose was to mitigate the sub-qualification in this infant industry. Paris was considered as the capital of the printing office and as an important example of the public politics of professional training at the beginning of the IIIth Republic. By creating this school, the City Council of Paris provoked a general outcry in the autonomous and corporate environment that was the book-related industry.
Blazon decorating the viaduct of Austerlitz, line 5 of the subway, on the Seine. The viaduct of Austerlitz is a railroad bridge which crosses the Seine. It is registered ancient memorial. The decoration of the viaduct of Austerlitz was confided to Jean Camille Formigé, also loaded with the architecture of the superstructures of the Paris metro. He made up it of diverse marine symbols (fishes, reams, anchors, tridents). The weapons of Paris are present at the bottom of bows. The passage of the subway between both stations that must be made around and the navigation on the Seine forbidding the presence of pillars in the middle of the river, the project held to realize the viaduct of Austerlitz was established by two parabolic bows, resting on both sides of the river on two stony pillars, allowing the apron to cross the river without intermediate support.
Blazon of the station of Austerlitz, on the window of north entrance of the line 5 of the subway. The station is reconstructed, from 1862 till 1867, by Pierre-Louis Renaud ( 1819-1897 ), chief architect of the company Paris-Orléans, with in particular the big metallic hall of a reach of 51,25 m and 280 m of length. This vast space is moreover used as workshop of hot-air balloons hanging the siege of Paris in 1870. It also builds the detached house of the departures in the North, the perpendicular building of the buffet, the detached house of the arrivals to the South, as well as the building of the administration of the railroad of Orléans in the extremity West of the hall, on the place Valhubert, in the facade style Belle Epoque. In 1900, the company of Paris-Orléans extends its line towards the center of the capital and the station of Orsay becomes the new end of the line, put into service on May 28th on the occasion of the World Fair. This monument is the object of a registration in conformance for historic monuments.