{"id":2649,"date":"2020-01-13T20:17:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T19:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesarchambaultdamerique.com\/notre-blason\/"},"modified":"2023-06-05T10:56:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T14:56:17","slug":"our-coat-of-arms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lesarchambaultdamerique.com\/en\/our-coat-of-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Coat of Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n
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Our Coat of Arms<\/b>\n <\/h3>\n

In the quartered shield<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n

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\n Upper left quarter<\/span>\n
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\n The\npartridge:<\/span> 
Emblem\nof Aunis, the former province\nof France where Dompierre was located,\na village where Jacques Archambault and his family lived before their\nemigration to New France in 1645. In heraldry,\nthe partridge is the bird of excellence. \n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Lower right quarter<\/b>\n <\/h4>\n

\n The\ncluster or grapes:<\/span> Symbol of the vine, reminiscent of Jacques Archambault's profession as a\nwinegrower in France;\nalso represents initiation; Dionysian affiliation\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n The\ncannon<\/span>:
 Reminds\nus that Jacques Archambault, who landed in Montreal, had to take up arms on occasion,\nparticularly to defend a redoubt near the current Place d'Armes. Also recalls\nthat his eldest son Denys died at the age of 21 in a cannon explosion during a\nscuffle against a party of 200 Iroquois.\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n The\nwell:<\/span>\n
 Represents\na profession practiced in New France by\nJacques Archambault, that of well digger. In addition to the first well on the Island of Montreal, which he dug in 1658 at the\nrequest of Mr. de Maisonneuve, the ancestor built at least three others for his\nneighbours who lived very close to the present Place d'Armes.\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n

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\n The shield<\/span> is topped with the fleur-de-lis d'or, emblem of the Kingdom of France, flanked\nby external heraldic ornaments and underlined by the scroll bearing our\npatronymic \u2013\nArchambault. 
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Design :\nJacques Archambault and Pierre Archambault 
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Our Coat of Arms In the quartered shield Upper left quarter The partridge: Emblem of Aunis, the former province of France where Dompierre was located, a village where Jacques Archambault and his family lived before their emigration to New France in 1645. In heraldry, the partridge is the bird of excellence.  Lower right quarter The cluster … Continue reading “Our Coat of Arms”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2649","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesarchambaultdamerique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesarchambaultdamerique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesarchambaultdamerique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesarchambaultdamerique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesarchambaultdamerique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lesarchambaultdamerique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5181,"href":"https:\/\/lesarchambaultdamerique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2649\/revisions\/5181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesarchambaultdamerique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}