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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9709916, member: 2844"]It is thought that the bee was a symbol of royalty among the Merovingian Franks, a Western Germanic people.</p><p>France is named after the Franks.</p><p><br /></p><p>About 300 gold bees were found in the tomb of Childeric, 5th century king of the Franks. The tomb was discovered in Tournai, the old Frankish capital.</p><p>Tournai is in present day Belgium, at the time it was part of the Habsburg Netherlands, but in the late 18th century it was annexed by the French.</p><p><br /></p><p>Napoleon thought the Frankish bees from Tournai, now French, an appropriate symbol for his coronation. The bees were a reference to historic kingship that was not connected to the royal families of the Kingdom of France. So he used the bees as a symbol of historic royal legitimacy.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9709916, member: 2844"]It is thought that the bee was a symbol of royalty among the Merovingian Franks, a Western Germanic people. France is named after the Franks. About 300 gold bees were found in the tomb of Childeric, 5th century king of the Franks. The tomb was discovered in Tournai, the old Frankish capital. Tournai is in present day Belgium, at the time it was part of the Habsburg Netherlands, but in the late 18th century it was annexed by the French. Napoleon thought the Frankish bees from Tournai, now French, an appropriate symbol for his coronation. The bees were a reference to historic kingship that was not connected to the royal families of the Kingdom of France. So he used the bees as a symbol of historic royal legitimacy.;)[/QUOTE]
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