Devise
Ad usque fidelis - in latin - meaning "Faithful to the end".
After the "dark age of plundering" in the French riviera. on 14 February 1470, Raphaël de Garesio landed in St Tropez with 22 men(simple peasants or sailors, they had all left the overcrowded Italian Riviera). They had to rebuilt and repopulate the area, in exchange for this service, they were granted by representative of "good king" - Jean de Cossa, Baron of Grimaud and Seneschal of Provence. a certain number of privileges, including some previously reserved exclusively for lords, such as a tax-exempt status and the right to bear arms. Their motto/devise was Ad usque fidelis and they kept their promise indeed. About 10 years later, a great wall with towers stood watch protecting the new houses from sea and interior land attack. ~60 families formed the new community and on 19 July 1479 the new Home Act was signed, called: "The rebirth charter of St Tropez".
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Famous quotes containing the word devise:
“It is only those who know how to feel that “this is not good” who devise improvements.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Until we devise means of discovering workers who are temperamentally irked by monotony it will be well to take for granted that the majority of human beings cannot safely be regimented at work without relief in the form of education and recreation and pleasant surroundings.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“The swimming hole is still in use. It has the same mudbank. It is still impossible to dress without carrying mud home in one’s inner garments. As an engineer I could devise improvements for that swimming hole. But I doubt if the decrease in mother’s grief at the homecoming of muddy boys would compensate the inherent joys of getting muddy.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)