{"id":2760,"date":"2010-12-14T05:09:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T05:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2017-10-18T11:10:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T09:10:37","slug":"european-national-mottos-in-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/european-national-mottos-in-french\/","title":{"rendered":"European National Mottos in French"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0Quelques devises nationales en Europe (Some national mottos in Europe)<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #00ffff;\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8211; <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">L&#8217;Union europ\u00e9enne<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">: &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Unie dans la diversit\u00e9<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">&#8211; Albanie: &#8220;Les Albanais placent leur foi dans l&#8217;Albanie&#8221; (Which would sound like &#8220;In Albania We Trust&#8221;)<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">&#8211; Allemagne: &#8220;Unit\u00e9 et Droit et Libert\u00e9&#8221;<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">&#8211; Andorre: &#8220;L&#8217;union fait la force&#8221; (But also &#8220;Touche-moi si tu oses&#8221;, meaning &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tv5.org\/TV5Site\/info\/geofiche_print.php?id=7\">Touch me if you dare<\/a>&#8220;&#8212;Similarly to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/quelle-est-la-devise-nationale-de-ton-pays-whats-your-countrys-national-motto-part1-afrique-et-amerique\/?preview=true&amp;preview_id=2737&amp;preview_nonce=c3b73fa723\">Chili<\/a>,\u00a0or the State of Texas, you definitely shouldn&#8217;t &#8220;mess with Andorra&#8221;&#8230;)<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">&#8211; Autriche: Just like le Mexique (a country who<a href=\"http:\/\/www.casaimperial.org\/emperador.htm\"> fought a war against it, in the same time as it was fighting against France<\/a>, \u00a0in case you don&#8217;t know), Austria has no devise nationale.<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/tag\/la-belgique\/\">Belgique<\/a>: &#8220;L&#8217;union fait la force&#8221; (&#8220;Unity gives Strength&#8221;)&#8212;That hopefully will remain so, before it could turn \u00a0-as it is increasingly feared- into the less unfortunate motto of &#8220;Chacun pour soi, et Dieu pour tous&#8221; (The French proverb that says: &#8220;Every man for himself, and God for all&#8221;!)<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/344\/\">Bulgarie<\/a>: Ditto: &#8220;L&#8217;union fait la force&#8221;<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">&#8211; Chypre: Same as New Hampshire, Greece and Uruguay: &#8220;La libert\u00e9 ou la mort&#8221;<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">&#8211; Danemark: &#8220;L&#8217;aide de Dieu, l&#8217;amour du peuple, la force du Danemark&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/une-delicieuse-tarte-au-poulpe\/\">Espagne<\/a>: &#8220;Encore et au-del\u00e0&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; France: &#8220;Libert\u00e9, \u00c9galit\u00e9, Fraternit\u00e9&#8221;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DAILAND CREW: &quot;Libert\u00e9, Egalit\u00e9, Fraternit\u00e9&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Da-4CSiBkgI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe long hard road to &#8220;Fraternit\u00e9&#8221; (a song by &#8220;Dailand Crew&#8221;)<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Gr\u00e8ce: &#8220;La libert\u00e9 ou la mort&#8221;, the same as Cyprus, New Hampshire, and Uruguay.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">&#8211; Irlande: &#8220;l&#8217;Irlande toujours&#8221;<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">&#8211; Islande: &#8220;La nation est construite sur la loi&#8221;<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">&#8211; Italie: Pas de devise (No motto), just like Austria and Mexico.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">&#8211; Luxembourg: &#8220;Nous voulons rester ce que nous sommes&#8221; (It seems that no campaign based on &#8220;change&#8221; will be very successful in the Luxembourg after all)<\/div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Salutations: Le\u00e7on de luxembourgeois\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NT5mg7MiMcc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Parlez-vous le luxembourgeois? (Do you speak Luxembourguish?) They call it &#8220;L\u00ebtzebuergesch&#8221;<br \/>\nSee for yourself how close it is to French!<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Norv\u00e8ge: &#8220;Tout pour la Norv\u00e8ge&#8221;<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">&#8211; Pays-Bas: &#8220;Je maintiendrai&#8221; (In French in the original motto!)<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Pologne: &#8220;Dieu, l&#8217;Honneur et la Patrie&#8221;<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">&#8211; Portugal : Join Mexico, Austria, and Italy!<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">&#8211; R\u00e9publique tch\u00e8que: &#8220;La v\u00e9rit\u00e9 pr\u00e9vaut&#8221;<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">&#8211; Roumanie: &#8220;Eveille-toi, Roumain !&#8221; Meaning &#8220;Wake up, Romanian!&#8221;&#8212;Not only said to the Romanians who enjoy\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CBMQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.transparent.com%2Ffrench%2Ftag%2Ffaire-une-grasse-matinee%2F&amp;ei=4-wGTdvPFsL88AaTsKnqAg&amp;usg=AFQjCNGatIZqRRpdUEWRwVpD2D041O_0gw&amp;sig2=rnw-Nly6LnxemWOsyO7K0A\">la grasse matin\u00e9e<\/a> (&#8220;sleeping in&#8221;, that is)<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">\n<p>&#8211; Royaume-Uni: &#8220;Dieu Et Mon Droit&#8221; (Just as the Dutch motto, the English -and then British- motto is in French as well since the 1400s.)<br \/>\nThe English -and later British- motto is in French: &#8220;Dieu et mon droit&#8221; (God and my right)&#8212;You can also see the motto of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royal.gov.uk\/MonarchUK\/Honours\/OrderoftheGarter\/OrderoftheGarter.aspx\">Order of the Garter<\/a>, also in French: &#8220;Honi soit qui mal y pense&#8221; (&#8220;Shame be to him who thinks evil of it&#8221;)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">&#8211; Serbie: &#8220;Seule l&#8217;unit\u00e9 sauve les Serbes&#8221;<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">&#8211; Su\u00e8de: &#8220;Pour la Su\u00e8de, en notre temps&#8221;<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">&#8211; Ukraine: &#8220;Libert\u00e9, Accord, Bont\u00e9&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"207\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/12\/european_flags-350x207.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/12\/european_flags-350x207.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/12\/european_flags-768x455.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/12\/european_flags.jpg 775w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>\u00a0Quelques devises nationales en Europe (Some national mottos in Europe) &#8211; L&#8217;Union europ\u00e9enne: &#8220;Unie dans la diversit\u00e9&#8220; &#8211; Albanie: &#8220;Les Albanais placent leur foi dans l&#8217;Albanie&#8221; (Which would sound like &#8220;In Albania We Trust&#8221;) &#8211; Allemagne: &#8220;Unit\u00e9 et Droit et Libert\u00e9&#8221; &#8211; Andorre: &#8220;L&#8217;union fait la force&#8221; (But also &#8220;Touche-moi si tu oses&#8221;, meaning &#8220;Touch&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/european-national-mottos-in-french\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":23801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[108,13],"tags":[12980,13012,13011,13013,12981],"class_list":["post-2760","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-vocabulary","tag-devises-nationales","tag-dieu-et-mon-droit","tag-honi-soit-qui-mal-y-pense","tag-je-maintiendrai","tag-national-mottos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27979,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions\/27979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}