When French men and women sailed the Atlantic Ocean from their home country to the new world, starting in the early 17th ... century or more from royalty? The answer is complicated. The fleur de ...

Some say King Louis VI (others claim it was King Louis VII) was the first French monarch "to use the fleur-de-lis on his shield" in the 12th century. One legend says that fleur-de-lis stems from ...

While controversy abounds as to the origin of the fleur de lis, there is no denying it has been around for centuries, appearing in various forms on Mesopotamian pottery, ancient coins from Gaul ...

However, the court ruled that his claim has no evidence, suggesting that neither Messier nor his family currently use the fleur-de-lis in any commercial capacity to merit consideration.

On a recent summer's evening, along streets lined with onlookers waving the blue and white fleur-de-lis flag rather ... that arrived here in the early 17th Century to found a French colonial ...