As a nod to their importance in the city's history, the traditional banners of the ancient guilds are hanging over Rue du dentelles. Most of these either contain geometric patterns or literal representations of the guilds main business: fish for the fisherman, a barrel for the tonneliers and a bunch of carrots for the gardeners guild.
My favourite banner by far, is this one for the baker's guild. It strikes me as being comically self-important, and I can only imagine that it must have been designed with tongue at least partially in cheek. I like to imagine a heraldic specialist describing it thusly: Argent, crowned lion rampant, bearing baguette and pretzel, unsalted.
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That would be a gules lion rampant with coronet; pretzel sinister, baguette dexter. I have no idea what "Les Boulangers" means. They're just making stuff up now.
You just know that the other guilds were totally jealous that they hadn't come up something equally badass: like a gardening dragon, for instance, or a barrel with racing stripes.
A barrel with racing stripes would have been totally cool, but coopers know dick all about cool: I mean, that's what the kids in the fishmongers' guild said.
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