Thursday, 23 November 2006

Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité


fr : Tympan d'une église (Aups, Var) avec la devise de l'état français datant de 1905 apposée pour signifier que l'église appartient à l'Etat

en : Tympanum of a church (Aups, Var department). The Republican devise "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité" was put on it in 1905 (following the French law on the separation of the state and the church) to show that this church was owned by the state. Such inscriptions are very rare, and this one was restored in 1989 during the bicentennary of the French Revolution.