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Remarks: Complete new edition, to replace pie90]. Regular updates are planned. Mechanical binding allowing insertion of amended pages. Fully bilingual, including the introduction section. Authorship, though known, is not specified. At the bottom of each page is written "Original". Information on line

Description (improvements from former editions are shown underscored):

The book begins with a foreword (1 p.) by Y. Desnoës, Naval Hydrograph, an introduction to vexillology (7 p., with colour illustrations) by M. Lupant, president of the FIAV, a glossary of vexillological terms (1 p.).

Section A is for state flags and markings. Pages are numbered according to the two first letters of country names. (For instance, Albania is in page AL 1.1 and Algeria in page AL 2.1.) This numbering system shall facilitate inclusion of new pages or new countries.

Each page has the name of the country in French-English-local language, and the full name of the country in French. For each flag, the bilingual caption is immediatly below the image and no longer on the facing page. Construction data are shown in the image borders. For national flags and ensigns, the FIAV grid of use is shown near the image. Colour data (official or suggested) are also sytematically shown. Bilingual footnotes are present when required. The status of the flags is higlighted when necessary (not confirmed, not allowed for private use etc.)

Section B is for international flags (world-wide organizations, European organizations, other organizations, and fishery inspection). The book ends with an index of all names cited (4 p.)

My personal comments:

This new Album is a milestone in vexillology. Several new flags have been added, and the layout of the book has been dramatically improved. All texts are translated in English in full. The introduction by M. Lupant and the English texts shall enlarge the “target” of the book. The book is expensive, but I would love if scientific books in the same price range could have the same editorial excellency (no printing mistakes, no typos…)

I have to congratulate once again Armand du Payrat and the graphist who works with him first for having convinced the SHOM to publish a totally new edition of the book and then for having displayed in such an attractive manner one of the most comprehensive and accurate database on flags and ensigns curently available. A special thank should also be addressed to David Prothero, who supervized the English translation. Knowing the quality of David’s contribution to the FOTW-list, nobody shall be surprised by the excellence of the English text. I am personnally glad to have finally an accurate list of the English equivalents of all these naval ranks.

• A - National flags
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• B - International flags
  • ◊I 1.1 World-wide Organizations
    • UN
    • NATO
    • “Red Cross & Red Crescent”
    • “Language Communities”
  • ◊I 2.1 European Organizations
    • EU and CoE
    • WEU
    • “Blatic Squadron”
    • “River Navigation Organizations”
  • ◊I 3.1 Other Organizations
    • “Pancontinental Organizations”
  • ◊I 4.1 Fishery Inspection
    • Fishery Inspection Pennants

The titles here given in “quotes” are my names given for sections without title in the Album. So these titles are somewhat imprecise and “for your convenience”, so do not draw any longreaching conclusions from them. In fact, I guess that they are not titled exactly because it is difficult to give exact title, while these flags (and those organizations) clearly form a kind of a logical group.

Among all these there are without clear naval connection, I believe, only Language Commmunites and Pancontinental Organizations. I would guess that they are all here for “general interest” and not for any use in naval (maritime, navigational, ceremonial) circumstances.

Željko Heimer, 07 Dec 2003

The call for information is probably one of the most striking features of the Album. Instead of saying «We are the French Navy and we know better», the first page of the Album encourages everybody to forward comments and corrections to the editors.

In spite of not being allowed to sign the Album, Armand Armand placed his “watermark” on the Album. The “sample page” shows the national flag of Noélie / Christmasia / Navedad, an imaginary country whose name is derived from Noël, Armand’s second name, and the flag of the Minister of Defence of Nolie, which is nothing but the banner of arms of the Payrat family. This is an extremely elegant “watermark”, already used for instance by Velázquez, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock. Armand is in good company…

Ivan Sache, 12 Jul 2003

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Includes: Afghanistan new National Flag South Africa Police Coast Patrol Ensign & Rescue Vessels Australia Customs Ensign Bahrain new National Flag and Royal Standard Bolivia Naval Ensign Brasil Vice-Pres, Minister, Cder of the Navy Comoros new National Flag South Korea Government Flag & Maritime Police India new Naval Ensign and rank flags, Coastguard Ensign Israel Custom Vessels, Police Ensign, Masthead Pennant Italy Chief of Staff Armed Forces Libya Naval Ensign Myanmar Naval Ensign New Zealand Customs Ensign, Police Ensign, Yacht Ensign, Chief of Defence Force Rwanda new National Flag Saint Lucia new National Flag East Timor new National Flag and of course many small corrections throughout.
Armand du Payrat, 19 Sep 2003
Željko Heimer, 07 Dec 2003

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It is a wonderful book. It contains all the official descriptions and images of the municipal coat-of-arms and flags in the province, and was published in 1998 by the Province of Antwerpen.
Mark Sensen, Oct 99

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NAVA’s current volume of Raven 9-10 rav], is a 418 page book with color and greyscale illustrations — (150 of the former and 250 of the latter) dedicated to US City Flags, specifically 150 of them (the 100 largest cities, all State Capitals, and the largest or second largest city in each state so that no State has less than 2 flags in the book) from Akron, Ohio to Yonkers, New York. We are now assembling a team for Volume 2 in this series, Canadian City Flags. Volunteers welcome. Also some research work is now beginning for a possible Volume 3 to cover the rest of North America. If you have any info on Civic flags in Mexico, Central America or the Caribbean (plus Greenland!), please let us know.
Dave Martucci, 10 May 2004

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