Tossed by the waves

The coat of arms of Paris, made official by the Baron Haussmann 1853, has as motto in Latin
FLUCTUAT NEC MERGITUR  which translated to English means "she is tossed by the waves but does not sink".   There is something magical when observed and registered and suddenly this symbol of the boat with full sails on choppy waves one can recognize everywhere.  On school entrances, on the city halls of the different arrondissements, on uniforms, on paper baskets, in windows, in museums .....  it can become an obsession to discover the 'tossed ship'.  https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEVvXTyctUWikA6donnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTB1NzF1OGo5BHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA0ZGTkZQMDFfMQ--?_adv_prop=image&fr=yhs-mozilla-001&va=coat+of+arms+of+paris&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001

One of my favorites is this highly stylized form which keeps the essential symbol of a ship with full sails in the original colors of red and blue of the Paris Commune and the royal white. Sailing smoothly on a calm sea.