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== Symbolism ==
'''Shield:''' <br>The use of bendy sable and argent represents a piano, which the armiger shares as a musical instrument with her grandfather. The bend sinister gules represents unorthodoxy, or heterodoxy, countering black and white thinking, represented by the use of sable and argent in the field. The chains is canting for the armiger's family name, but also represent law, which the armiger studies, and self-restraint in the face of excess. It also relates to this verse of Charles Baudelaire's 'Le Vampire': 'Infâme à qui je suis lié / Comme le forçat à la chaîne' ('To whom I'm linked / As is a convict to his chain').
'''Crest:''' The owl, which represents philosophy and measure, and the armiger's pseudonym,'Swooper'. It stands between two branches, balancing out judicial authority represented by the axes terminating each branch, the same axe that settles disputes ('tranche les litiges' in French). The chrysanthemums are some of the armiger's favourite flowers, present in large part for aesthetic reasons and to allude to the armiger's interest in Victorian flower language.<br>
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