What would be a good equivalent for the "Sieg Heil!" salute for a French equivalent of the Nazis? (Not the actual Nazis, but a similar ATL group in France)
It would likely be something very similar, since the Nazi salute was based on the imagined '
Roman salute' and was quite common as a symbol of shared commitment, at least in art, in the 18th & 19th centuries. For example, there's the painting of the '
Tennis Court Oath' taken by the Third Estate of the French Estates-General, one of the moments leading up to the French Revolution. In Napoleon's time, there's the painting of the army taking an oath to the emperor on the field of Mars (
Serment de l'armée fait à l'empereur après la distribution des aigles au champ de Mars, 5 décembre 1804). Both of these show salutes similar to what was later used by the Nazis. OTL, similar salutes were in fact used in France (see the
'Elsewhere' section of the 'Roman salute' article).
