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=== Heraldry === {| class="wikitable" width="100%" |- valign="top" | style="padding:8px" align="center" |[[File:Blason ville fr Pau (64).svg|130 px|Blason of Pau]] | * According to Paul Raymond (archivist) in his ''Topographical dictionary of the Béarn-Basque country'' (p. 133) Pau arms are blazoned: **''[[Azure (heraldry)|Azure]] to a fence of three [[argent]] footed [[Pale (heraldry)|pales]], surmounted by a peacock spreading its tail [[Or (heraldry)|or]], accompanied at point and inside two cows facing and crowned the same; the [[Chief (heraldry)|chief]] also [[Or (heraldry)|or]] charged with a natural tortoise shell surmounted by a Royal Crown closed azure enhanced of [[Or (heraldry)|or]], accompanied by the letter capital H dexter and sinister with the Roman numeral IV also azure'' [[File:Blason de Foix-Béarn.svg|80px|right|Blason de Foix Béarn]] * '''Remarks''' **These arms are "rebus" [[canting arms]] (''pau'' means "Palisade" in Bearnese), and of "approximation" form (the peacock said as ''pavon'' or ''pau'' [paw]). **The Viscount of Foix-Béarn on who Pau depended, his arms are inspired by the three pales of Foix and the two cows of Béarn. **In the blazon, the expression ''(with...) "the Roman numeral IV"'' is improper (IV is a ''number'' consisting of ''two'' Roman ''numerals'') best would be: ''(with...) "of an IV in Roman numerals."'' |- valign="top" | style="padding:8px" align="center" |[[File:Blason ville fr Pau (64) Malte-B.svg|100 px|Blason of Pau]] | * According to [[Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun|Malte-Brun]] in ''The Illustrated France'' from 1882, they are blazoned: **''Azure three pales and drawsheets of argent gathered by a [[fess]] of the same, middle pale surmounted with a peacock spreading its tail at chief, and two cows faced argent at point.'' * '''Remarks''' **The chief, added in 1829, is not mentioned in his ''Illustrated France'' which dates back to 1882. **Cows here are not crowned, so more resemble those of the arms of the Lords of Béarn, also not crowned. **The peacock is not of specified colour. It was probably "au naturel". Found sometimes emblazoned thus for the current coat of arms. |- valign="top" | style="padding:8px" align="center" |[[File:Blason ville Fr Pau(64) ancien.svg|100 px|Former blason of Pau]] | *According to Paul Raymond in his ''Topographical dictionary Béarn-Basque country'' (p. 133) the old arms were **''Argent three pales of [[gules]] with a peacock spreading its tail the same perched on the middle.'' *According to Gaston of Breuille (of Pau, 1896) notes the ancient arms granted in 1482, by François-Phoebus, King of Navarre, were: **''Argent, three pales of gules, the peacock spreading its tail azure perched on the middle.'' * '''Remarks:''' **These blazons are certainly incomplete or defective, because it is unclear how a peacock (or whatever it is) could be placed on a pale that by definition goes to the top of the shield. The contradiction for the peacock colour is secondary ("De gules" – ''"of the same" as the pales'' – for Raymond or "Azure" for Du Breuille) **However A. Fourcade in his ''Picturesque and historic album of the Pyrenees'' (p. 9) described, in layman's terms, these arms: ''three pales, on one of which, namely the middle one is perched a peacock spreading its tail.'' granted by François-Phoebus (but in 1442 this time!) **It seems that in fact it is not "pal-pièce honorable" [pale-honorable part], but a "pieux" [pious] furniture, which already foreshadows the color, the pale drawsheets formed at the foot which make up the barrier of the present coat of arms. |}
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