Mosset

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MOSSET

Département : Pyrénées-Orientales

Official blason

(fr) D'or à quatre pals de gueules, au chat hérissé de sable, allumé d'argent, tenant une fusée spatiale au naturel dans sa bouche.

Origin/meaning

The cat holding a rocket is taken from the arms of the Catalan family Mos(s)et from the area around Girona. The cat is a canting element, moix being cat in Catalan. The background from the rocket is not clear. The family arms showed a cat holding a 'rocket', but the existing images are not very clear. It is described in a document from 1753, so most likely it was a piece of fireworks (cohete). Cohete means rocket (fusée in French) and somehow in the mid 20th century the word was interpreted as a space rocket and thus the arms show a cat holding a space rocket. (both cohete and fusée can mean a firework-rocket and a space rocket).