Florebo quocumque ferar

{{Short description|Latin phrase}}

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{{lang|la|Flōrēbō quōcumque ferar}} is a Latin phrase which can be translated in English as "I will flourish wherever I am brought", i.e. "I will flourish wherever I go".

During the 17th and 18th century it was designated as the motto of the French East India Company by Louis XIV, and is written on its blazon.{{cite book|last1=Martin|first1=Henri|title=Martin's History of France: The Age of Louis XIV, Volume 1|date=1865|publisher=Walker, Wise and Company|page=104,106|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9HwPAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Florebo+quocumque+ferar%22&pg=PA106|accessdate=6 August 2015}}

The phrase is the motto of Réunion island, a French overseas department and an outermost region of the European Union in the South West Indian Ocean.{{cite book|last1=Minahan|first1=James|title=The complete guide to national symbols and emblems|date=2010|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|isbn=9780313344978|page=888|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jfrWCQAAQBAJ&q=%22Florebo+quocumque+ferar%22+reunion&pg=PA888|accessdate=6 August 2015}} It is also on the blazon created by the former governor Emile Merwart during the colonial exhibition held in Petite-Île in 1925.{{cite book|last1=Argyll|first1=Claude|title=Escale aux Mascareignes: île de la Réunion, île Maurice|date=1935|publisher=J. Crès|page=295|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qDcbAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Florebo+quocumque+ferar%22+reunion+%22Emile+Merwart%22|accessdate=6 August 2015}}

Florebo quocumque ferar is also the motto of the Vergriete family (the "House of Griete"), a family of Flemish nobles attached to the seigneury of Cassel. The family name, from the Dutch word for daisy,{{cite web|title=Vergriete|url=http://www.geneanet.org/genealogie/fr/vergriete.html|website=geneanet.org|publisher=Geneanet|accessdate=11 August 2015}} has been associated with this motto since the 16th century.« Mémoires of Théodore Leuridan, commander of Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand, former librarian/archivist of the city of Roubaix », dans Les Vieilles familles flamandes, p. 16, line 21.