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French National Rugby Union Team
The France national rugby union team () represents France in men's international rugby union and it is administered by the French Rugby Federation. They traditionally play in blue shirts emblazoned with the national emblem of a golden rooster on a red shield, with white shorts and red socks; thus they are commonly referred to as or . The team's home matches are mostly played at the Stade de France in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis. Rugby was introduced to France in 1872 by the British, and on New Years Day 1906, the national side played its first Test match (rugby union), test match – against New Zealand national rugby union team, New Zealand in Paris. France played sporadically against the Home Nations until they joined them to form the Six Nations Championship, Five Nations Championship (now the Six Nations) in 1910. France also competed in the rugby competitions at early Rugby union at the Summer Olympics, Summer Olympics, winning the gold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gallic Rooster
The Gallic rooster (french: le coq gaulois) is a national symbol of France as a nation, as opposed to Marianne representing France as a state and its values: the Republic. The rooster is also the symbol of the Wallonia region and the French Community of Belgium. France During the times of Ancient Rome, Suetonius, in The Twelve Caesars, noticed that, in Latin, rooster (''gallus'') and Galli (''Gallus'') were homonyms. However, the association of the Gallic rooster as a national symbol is apocryphal, as the rooster was neither regarded as a national personification nor as a sacred animal by the Gauls in their mythology and because there was no "Gallic nation" at the time, but a loose confederation of Gallic nations instead. But a closer review within that religious scheme indicates that "Mercury" was often portrayed with the cockerel, a sacred animal among the Continental Celts. Julius Caesar in ''De Bello Gallico'' identified some gods worshipped in Gaul by using the names of thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
