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The writer Fabcaro tells us more about the latest album and its enigmatic title: \u201cThe White Iris is the name of a new school of positive thought that started in Rome and has spread through major cities from Rome to Lutecia.<\/p>\n

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Caesar decides this method might have a beneficial effect on the Roman camps around the famous Gaulish village. But its principles also start influencing the villagers themselves\u2026 The teaser plate published in December gave a little taste of its effects!<\/p>\n

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I wanted to find a title in the spirit of Goscinny and Uderzo\u2019s albums where the theme is often embodied by an actual object or a character (The Cauldron, The Soothsayer, The Great Divide, The Chieftain\u2019s Shield, The Golden Sickle\u2026<\/em>) In this case, the iris symbolises goodwill and fulfilment, or at least that\u2019s what everyone hopes\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What\u2019s the history of the iris?<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Laurence Gossart, Doctor of Arts at Universit\u00e9 Paris I Panth\u00e9on-Sorbonne tells us more about this flower that appeared in the Cretaceous period \u2013 that\u2019s 80 million years ago.<\/p>\n

The iris has been given quite a lot of significance over the years. First of all, it was an Egyptian symbol particularly associated with Horus, the god of sunrise and sunset.<\/p>\n

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But Iris was also a Greek divinity, a kindly messenger of the gods and Hera\u2019s favourite because she often brought good news. In ancient Greek \u201ciris\u201d means rainbow, and the Greek Iris was said to travel on a rainbow when she came down to earth. The flower reflects her name by incarnating the full palette of colours.<\/p>\n

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There are many varieties of iris: the yellow flag iris, the iris pallida, the iris siberica, the iris germanica and its subspecies the iris florentina. The florentina, a white iris, seems to have been especially prevalent all around the Mediterranean in ancient times, so ancient Greeks and Romans would have been familiar with it. In the Sixth Century, Clovis King of the Franks used the iris as a symbol that we now know as the fleur-de-lys. The story goes that when Clovis was at war with the Visigoths, a deer crossed the river Vienne, showing his army a safe place to cross where the banks were strengthened by the rhizomes of irises.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Laurence Gossart, Doctor of Arts at Universit\u00e9 Paris I Panth\u00e9on-Sorbonne tells us more about this flower that appeared in the Cretaceous period \u2013 that\u2019s 80 million years ago.<\/p>\n

The iris has been given quite a lot of significance over the years. First of all, it was an Egyptian symbol particularly associated with Horus, the god of sunrise and sunset.<\/p>\n

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But Iris was also a Greek divinity, a kindly messenger of the gods and Hera\u2019s favourite because she often brought good news. In ancient Greek \u201ciris\u201d means rainbow, and the Greek Iris was said to travel on a rainbow when she came down to earth. The flower reflects her name by incarnating the full palette of colours.<\/p>\n

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There are many varieties of iris: the yellow flag iris, the iris pallida, the iris siberica, the iris germanica and its subspecies the iris florentina. The florentina, a white iris, seems to have been especially prevalent all around the Mediterranean in ancient times, so ancient Greeks and Romans would have been familiar with it. In the Sixth Century, Clovis King of the Franks used the iris as a symbol that we now know as the fleur-de-lys. The story goes that when Clovis was at war with the Visigoths, a deer crossed the river Vienne, showing his army a safe place to cross where the banks were strengthened by the rhizomes of irises.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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