This list includes flags that either have been in use or are currently used by France, French Overseas Collectivites, the Sui Generis Collectivity and the French Overseas Territory. The French Society of Vexillology is the authority on the flying of flags in France and maintains the only official register of flags for the country. [ 1 ]

2024年12月5日 · Its giant tricolor flag—towering in size and ambition—was a vivid declaration of France’s defiance. The blue, white, and red bands were not merely decorative; they symbolized liberty, equality, and fraternity, the principles that underpinned France’s Revolutionary fervor.

The national flag of France (drapeau national de la France) is a tricolour featuring three vertical bands coloured blue , white, and red. The design was adopted after the French Revolution, whose revolutionaries were influenced by the horizontally striped red-white-blue flag of the Netherlands.

So the white ensign became the white flag ashore until the return of Napoleon Ist in 1815 (these were the hundred days when the tricolor flag was flown from the imperial decree of March 9th), but during the return of Louis XVIII to Paris the white flag became legal again (July 7th).

2024年12月20日 · Flag of France, vertically striped blue-white-red national flag. Blue and red are the traditional colors of Paris, while white is associated with the House of Bourbon. The flag was seen to embody all the principles of the Revolution: liberty, equality, fraternity, democracy, secularism, and modernization.

2022年2月7日 · Why did the French change their flag? The national flag of France finds its origins in the French Revolution. The first version of a flag was adopted in 1790 with the three stripes red-white-blue. Indeed, from 1790 to 1792, there was no national flag in France.

National flag On 2 December 1804, the First Consul ( Premier Consul ) Napoléon Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor of the French ( Empereur des Français ) as Napoléon I. In 1814, France was invaded by a coalition led by Prussia and Napoléon I abdicated on 4-6 April.

The colors represent "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity", which were the ideals of the French Revolution and is France's national motto as of the beginning of the Republic of France. Blue and red are also traditionally the colors of Paris, while white is the color of the House of Bourbon. Today, the French flag is seen on all public buildings.

The flag of France before the French Revolution featured the fleur-de-lis on a blue background. The Bourbon family who ruled from the late 1500’s to the time of the French Revolution (and for a short while in the 1800s) had a white flag with gold fleur-de-Lis.

English: It was the Naval Ensign of the Kingdom of France (pure white version) as used before 1789, and between 1814/15 and 1830. Français : Le drapeau blanc fut le drapeau français pendant la Première Restauration et la Seconde Restauration (1814-1830).