Crapaud
or Johnny Crapaud. A Frenchman; so called from the
device of the ancient kings of France, “three toads erect, saltant.”
(Guillim's Display of Heraldrie, 1611.) Nostradamus, in the
sixteenth century, called the French “crapauds.”
Les anciens crapauds prenderont Sara
(Nostradamus). Sara is the word Aras reversed, and when the
French under Louis XIV. took Aras from the Spaniards, this verse was quoted
as a prophecy.
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