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==Etymology== [[File:Francisca.jpg|thumb|Francisca on display in Romano-Germanic Museum in Cologne, Germany]] [[Image:Franziska Weingarten Grab 510.jpg|thumb|Blade of a Francisca from the Alamannic graveyard of Weingarten (6th century)]] The term ''francisca'' first appeared in the book ''[[Etymologiae|Etymologiarum sive originum]], libri XVIII'' by [[Isidore of Seville]] (c. 560β636) as a name used in [[Hispania]] to refer to these weapons "because of their use by the Franks".{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}} The historian [[Gregory of Tours]] (c. 538β594) in his ''History of the Franks'' uses two [[Latin]] terms for the Frankish axe: ''securis'' and ''bipennis''. The rΓ©gime of [[Vichy France]] used the image of a stylised double-headed ''francisque'' as part of its iconography (compare [[fasces]]).
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