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Old 26th March 2014, 09:04 PM   #3
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Just a curiosity that, when the rooster started to give its first steps into being a symbol for the French, in 1665, it appeared in medals chasing a lion, following the Roman legend (Plineus), in which the rooster crow chases the lion away. But this was turned into a two side joke by Luis XIV enemies (mainly the Dutch), who came out with a symbol in that, a (Batavian) lion chased a rooster away.
Maybe by 1702 the figure of a rooster was not 'mature' enough to be adopted as a means of French provenance by native artisans .
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