Since Antiquity the Cicada always aroused the interest.

Where to find in the world of the insects a similar fame?

The Egyptians make of it a symbol of the music and represent it by a hiéroglyphe.

The Greeks make the symbol of the beauty of it, it is reproduced on certain parts of monnaie.Les Greek women put Cicadas out of gold like ornament in their hairstyle. One locked up some in cages, to intend them to sing. Homère compared the wise old men then, surrounding king Priam, with cicadas.

The Romans and their various successors, until our days, had only mistaken for the insect and its music. For Virgile, it was a raucous song and désageéable.

The Chinese make of it a "object" à.la.mode. An officer, close to the emperor, appointed "large cigalist", raised an army of hunters to provide to the aristocrats alive cicadas, out of cage, to offer.

The troubadours, to the XIII èmes century, carried like signs corporative, a cicada dried, on their hat.

Since thousands of ceramics Cicadas were sold in the souvenir shops, in Provence. For the amateurs, you can acquire at "O Soleil d'Antibes" (access to the shop ) of ceramics and various limp of musical cicadas which, opened, implies their song. Some make the covetousness of the collectors.

Here more than one century the workshops Louis Sicard in Aubagne produced earthenware Cicadas (represented on a branch of olive-tree with the famous currency of Provence "Lou souleù semi F laid").

The cutler Gerard Julien, of Solliès-Bridge, was in despair to see that Provence did not have, following the example other French areas, his knife emblematic. He created the knife: "Lou Prouvençau".
The Of Provence one with its broad handle cut in olive-tree, genévrier or boxwood and carved, its spring decorated with a cicada and its guilloched blade of a sun. It likes as much as Gerard Julien carried out a whole range, of the "vine grower" the "Magali" while passing by the collection marine.Ce knife is manufactured by the "Cutlery With the Shoe" (to visit their site )

We find our Cicada on the postcards; in postage stamps; painted or in relief on the crockery; like decorative object, out of porcelain or terra cotta, various sizes, to fix at the wall or to pose on a pedestal table; like paper weight; in a musical box, which, opened with the sun, implies their song; etc