Context: The mascots of Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games are designed like the red Phrygian cap and are called Les Phryges.
About Les Phryges:
The Phryges are the official mascots of Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
They are two little female anthropomorphic Phrygian caps that are a strong symbol of France.
The Phrygian cap, a soft, generally red hat, was worn by freed slaves in Phrygia, an ancient Greek kingdom in what is now Turkey.
The Phrygian cap originated in the ancient country of Phrygia (in modern Turkey.
The French Revolution was also the time that the earliest representations of a woman wearing a Phrygian cap — the allegorical Marianne — made an appearance in art.
It is also an international symbol of liberty present in many emblems in North and South America.
