Show GOES BACK TO OLD OLD LEGEND LEGEND Why the French French Throne Throne ne Has Long Been Known as the Throne t of the Lilies The throne of France Is called tho the throne of the lilies because of ot the old national the emblem the fleur fleur do do a n species of lily The stor story of the adoption tion thou of ot the he lis fleur-de-lis his de-his Is is partly historical his orient anti and partly legendary According to history Clovis king of ot the Franks married the Princess Clotilde o of Burgundy In A. A D D. D The young oung young queen who was a n Christian Christian Chris ChrIs- tian earnestly desired the converSion conver conver- conversion conversion sion of her hel husband who like lUce the most nf f f the Frankish nation was a n heathen In III DO the Franks and the theAll All I 1 Germans were at war and at the battle of near Cologne Clovis Olo was so hard pressed b by his enemies that In desperation he ho called culled upon the tho thc God of the Christians Chris Chris- thins for help vowing that should he obtain victory he would himself become a Christian The v vero ere routed and on Christmas day of the same Carne year ear Clovis ls and several several sev sev- I eral thousand of at his soldiers were baptized The Tho continuation of the tho story I which Is legendary Is that on tho eve of his baptism an angel from heaven Ien presented King Clovis with n blue banner embroidered with lis fleur-de-lis which he was to adopt ao no the banner of France However Howe This may have ha been It Is n a fact that from flOm the time of to the French Revolution the kings of France bore boreas as their arms golden lilies on an azure field |