The Roman Empire called the place in France today Gaul, and Gaul means rooster in Latin. This connection became common only after about the 14th century. The French have also gradually accepted the representative image of the rooster. But it was not until the Renaissance that the rooster officially became a symbol of France. During the French Revolution and the July Monarchy, the rooster replaced the fleur-de-lis, the symbol of royal power. There was a rooster on the flag of the First French Revolutionary War, which was a symbol of the revolutionary consciousness of the French people at that time. Despite the vigilant, courageous qualities of the rooster, Emperor Napoleon preferred the eagle as the symbol of France. During World War I, the rooster was used as a symbol of the French nation's resistance to the Prussian invasion. Since the 1980s, the Gallic rooster has been used as the symbol of the French football and rugby teams, making the Gallic rooster world-famous. symbol.