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Flag of Deux-Sèvres - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 25 January 2022
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Code: 79
Region: Nouvelle-Aquitaine (Poitou-Charentes until 2014)
Traditional provinces: Poitou,
Angoumois,
Saintonge
Bordering departments: Charente,
Charente-Maritime,
Maine-et-Loire,
Vendée,
Vienne
Area: 5,999 km2
Population (2017): 374,351 inhabitants
Préfecture: Niort
Sous-préfectures:
Bressuire, Parthenay
Subdivisions: 3 arrondissements, 17 cantons, 256 municipalities.
The department is named after the two (deux) rivers
Sèvre Nantaise (126 km), tributary of the Loire, and
Sèvre Niortaise (150 km), tributary of the Atlantic
Ocean.
On 3 August 1973, the municipality of Puy-Saint-Bonnet was incorporated to the municipality of Cholet and therefore transferred from the department of Deux-Sèvres to the department of Maine-et-Loire.
Ivan Sache, 14 November 2019
The departmental council of Deux-Sèvres adopted a new logo in 2020, including the code (79) of the department. The flag is now blue with the logo (photo, 2020).
Olivier Touzeau, 25 January 2022
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Flag of Deux-Sèvres - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 12 May 2019
The flag of Deux-Sèvres (photo) is white with the department's logo. In 2015, General Councils were renamed to Departmental Councils. Accordingly the words "Conseil général" were replaced by the words "Le Département”. The shades of green of the grass blades were modified.
Olivier Touzeau, 12 May 2019
Flag of the former General Council
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Flag of the General Council of Deux-Sèvres - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 12 May 2019
The flag of the General Council of Deux-Sèvres (photo) was white with the Council's logo, the writing "UN BRIN D'AVANCE" excluded.
The inhabitants of the department were asked in 2009 to select the new logo among three proposals.
The website dedicated to the new logo presents the elected design, voted for by 37.8% of the voters.
The logo is white with the grey writing "DEUX-SÈVRES / UN BRIN
D'AVANCE", surmounted by a bunch of grass blades, all oblique and in
different shades of black or green. The "I" of "BRIN" is also oblique
and green.
"Modern and dynamic", the new logo conveys three meanings:
- the grass blades swept by the wind represents the freshness of a
living vegetation;
- the interlaced blades recall the entangled canals of the "Green
Venice", that is Marais Poitevin, and, also communication axes,
symbolizing the location of the department on the Atlantic Arc*;
- the blades form an arrow with its source on the word "Deux" and
pointing to various directions, symbolizing the central location of
the department, close to Bordeaux, Nantes, La Rochelle and even Paris.
The motto "Un brin d'avance" - A blade ahead - recalls that the rural
character of the department is an advantage because of its preserved
environment.
*Quoting the Atlantic Arc Commission website:
The Atlantic Arc Commission is one of the six Geographical Commissions in the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions of Europe, and its action, although specific to the requirements of its member Regions, is part of a more general framework.
Founded in 1989 in Faro, Algarve, the Atlantic Arc Commission covers 27 Regions from Andalusia to Scotland, all of whom have cooperated since that date on a wide range of issues.
Olivier Touzeau, Ivan Sache & Pascal Vagnat, 12 May 2019
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Former flag of the General Council - Image by Ivan Sache, 25 October 2009
The former flag of the General Council of Deux-Sèvres, as reported
by Thierry Gilabert, is white with the logo of the General Council.
The former logo of the General Council of Deux-Sèvres is a white
rectangle framed in green and charged with two "S" in two different
shades of blue. "CONSEIL GÉNÉRAL / DEUX-SÈVRES" is written below in blue letters.
The double-shaded "S" represent the two rivers for which the
department is named, Sèvre Nantaise and Sèvre Niortaise.
The inhabitants of the department were recently asked to select the new logo among three proposals.
The website dedicated to the new logo presents the elected design, voted for by 37.8% of the voters.
The logo is white with the grey writing "DEUX-SÈVRES / UN BRIN
D'AVANCE", surmounted by a bunch of grass blades, all oblique and in
different shades of black or green. The "I" of "BRIN" is also oblique
and green.
"Modern and dynamic", the new logo conveys three meanings:
- the grass blades swept by the wind represents the freshness of a
living vegetation;
- the interlaced blades recall the entangled canals of the "Green
Venice", that is Marais Poitevin, and, also communication axes,
symbolizing the location of the department on the Atlantic Arc*;
- the blades form an arrow with its source on the word "Deux" and
pointing to various directions, symbolizing the central location of
the department, close to Bordeaux, Nantes, La Rochelle and even Paris.
The motto "Un brin d'avance" - A blade ahead - recalls that the rural
character of the department is an advantage because of its preserved
environment.
Thierry Gilabert, Ivan Sache & Pascal Vagnat, 25 October 2009
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