The flag of Haute-Saône brings together the arms of the Franche-Comté, the crescent of Vesoul and waves for the river: a coat of arms designed by the Archives of France in 1965.
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It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio, blue, covered with golden pales, with a crowned lion in the centre and a wavy red stripe at the top.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag associated with Haute-Saône is a blue field covered with golden pales, with a crowned lion in the centre and a wavy red stripe at the top.
Haute-Saône is a department in eastern France. The coat of arms was designed by the Archives of France in 1965.
The coat of arms brings together the arms of the Franche-Comté, the crescent of Vesoul and the waves of the river. The golden crowned lion holds a white crescent between its claws.
It has never changed. No approval date is recorded.
Blue
the colour of the field, with many small golden vertical pales spread over the whole area.
Chief
the upper stripe, red, with a white wave inside. Its lower edge is also wavy.
Lion
golden and crowned, standing on its hind legs, in the centre. It holds a white crescent between its claws.
The coat of arms was designed by the Archives of France in 1965. It is a late date for a departmental shield, and it shows that in France coats of arms are sometimes designed from the historical archive, as one would make a museum piece.
The crowned lion is not alone: it holds a white crescent between its claws. It is the element that links the coat of arms to that of the Franche-Comté, and it gives the lion a pose of guardianship instead of walking.
The field carries many small golden vertical pales, and above it a red stripe whose wave separates the field from the rest. The pales are a texture pattern; the wave, a line of water. They are two different devices on the same flag.
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