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Flag of La Tour-de-Salvagny - Image by Ivan Sache, 7 March 2010
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The municipality of La Tour-de-Salvagny (3,476 inhabitants in 2007; 852 ha) is located 15 km west of Lyon.
La Tour-de-Salvagny developed in the 11th century around a church
fortified with a tower (in French, tour). Salvagny comes from the
Latin word silivianicus, "a clearing in the forest". The name of the
village evolved as Turris Salvagniaci (1330), La Tour de Salvagni
(1544), La Tour de Salvaginy (1573) and, eventually, La Tour de
Salvagny (1625).
The post house of La Tour-de-Salvagny was the last post before
reaching Lyon.
Source: Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 7 March 2010
The flag of La Tour-de-Salvagny, as seen hoisted on
the horse track in February 2006 (photo), is horizontally divided red-yellow
(1:2), with a yellow griffin and a white lion facing each other in the
red stripe and a blue tower emerging from a green forest in the yellow
stripe.
The flag is a banner of the municipal arms, D'or à la tour d'azur
issante d'une forêt de sinople; au chef de gueules au griffon d'or et
au lion léopardé couronné d'argent affrontés ("Or a tower azure
issuant from a forest vert, a chief gules a griffin or and a lion
passant crowned argent affronty").
As explained in a document produced by the secondary school of
Châtillon d'Azergues, the arms of La Tour-de-Salvagny were designed on
16 June 1987 by Jean Tricou and approved on 26 June 1989. The tower
and the forest are canting for the name of the village. The chief
recalls that the Canons-Counts of Lyon were once lords of La Tour-de-
Salvagny.
According to Jean-Baptiste Monfalcon (Histoire de la ville de Lyon,
1847), the seal of the Canons-Counts of Lyon bore a griffin and a
crowned lion affronty. The griffin, half-eagle and half-lion,
represented the two parts of the town separated by river Saône, the
one belonging to the German Empire (eagle) and the other one belonging
to the Kingdom of France (lion for the Province of Lyonnais). The
crowned lion recalls that canons of noble origins bore the title of
count.
Pascal Vagnat & Ivan Sache, 7 March 2010