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Coat of arms

English: Paris city (Ile-de-France)

Français : la commune de Paris (75)

Blazon

English: Gules, a ship, sail unfurled, argent, floating on waves of the same, a chief, azure, semé-de-lis, Or.

Français : De gueules à la nef equipée et habillée d'argent voguant sur des ondes du même mouvant de la pointe, au chef d'azur fleurdelysé d'or.

Blazon reference

Français : Own work

Artist

Vectorized image version by Manassas, Ssire, Carfois, Oliver H & Wikimandia, of the official Paris blazon designed in 1942 by the urban heraldry commission of the Seine department ("commission d'héraldique urbaine de la Seine")

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conform to the official blazon of Paris as defined by the "Arrêté préfectoral du 20 juin 1942" on 20 June 1942, approving the work of the urban heraldry commission of the Seine, which proposed to take again, by modernizing it, the design of the nave appearing on the seal of 1412. See Histoire du blason de Paris. See also the drawing on the 1965 French post stamp (by Robert Louis) and the colors on the official Paris website. See also Paris on the heraldry-wiki.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	20:51, 17 May 2021	600 × 660 (14 KB)	Thom.lanaud	Chief
	12:25, 17 May 2021	600 × 660 (15 KB)	Thom.lanaud	A CoA is not a logo, so there is no "conformity" of colors (+ argent needs to be exactly the same everywhere, here the sea and the ship) ; back to the Projet:Blasons colors.
	02:44, 17 May 2021	512 × 564 (14 KB)	Carfois	Reverted to version as of 04:17, 4 September 2017 (UTC) where colors are more conform to [https://www.paris.fr/pages/fluctuat-nec-mergitur-l-histoire-de-la-devise-de-paris-15814 the official version]
	21:59, 3 May 2021	600 × 660 (20 KB)	Rallybophal	Don't overwrite files => see COM:CROP
	15:05, 25 April 2021	600 × 660 (370 KB)	Nescd	Contour du blason
	14:58, 25 April 2021	600 × 660 (370 KB)	Nescd	Actualisation du blason
	12:54, 13 July 2020	600 × 660 (20 KB)	Thom.lanaud	Cleaning
	19:34, 16 February 2020	600 × 660 (78 KB)	Jmlozano02	Reverted to version as of 14:32, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
	04:17, 4 September 2017	512 × 564 (14 KB)	Kaliforniyka	correct small errors
	14:00, 15 March 2014	600 × 660 (76 KB)	Oliver H	Vagues et ombres dans la voile comme sur File:Grandes_Armes_de_Paris.svg