Two French shields Top: arms with three toads.According to legend, this was the
coat of arms of Clovis, king of the Franks, before his conversion
to Christianity. He then replaced them with three irises.
Bottom: French Moderne arms with three fleurs-de-lis adopted
as the arms of France from 1376 to 1469. From Nicholas Upton's Treatise
on Military Arts and Heraldry, 1450, British Library.