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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.
Aleppo: This part of the French Mandate of Syria from 1920 to 1925 used a white flag with tricolour in the canton and three yellow five-pointed stars in a triangle in the fly. Latakia : This part of the French Mandate of Syria used a white flag, ratio 2:3, with the tricolour in the canton taking up 1/9 of the area of the flag, red triangles in ...
A pure white flag: 1943–1945: Naval jack of Free France: The argent rhomboid field is defaced with a gules Lorraine cross. 10 August 1939–present: Flag of the Admiral of the French Navy: 10 August 1939–present: Flag of the Vice-Admiral D'escadre of the French Navy: Flag of the Vice-Admiral of the French Navy: Flag of the Contre-Admiral of ...
France moderne remained the French royal standard, and with a white background was the French national flag until the French Revolution, when it was replaced by the tricolor of modern-day France. The fleur-de-lis was restored to the French flag in 1814, but replaced once again after the revolution against Charles X in 1830.
Since the white field was too royal for the taste of the revolution, on 27 pluviôse year II of the French Republican calendar (15 February 1794), the flag and the ensign were changed to the design of the current flag of France: three columns of equal width, of blue, white, and red. The same banner was again decreed to be the flag on 7 March 1848.
White flag, internationally recognised as a sign of truce, ceasefire, and surrender. The flag of the Kingdom of France in 1814–1830, during the Bourbon Restoration. Afghanistan (with black text) Ahrar al-Sham, flag used since early 2016 (with green and black text) Buenos Aires, Argentina (with multicolored coat of arms)
The mascot of the Paris Olympic Games may not seem all that mighty to those outside the host country, but that little red hat, known as a Phrygian cap (or a liberty cap), is a symbol of the French ...
The cockade of France (French: Cocarde tricolore, lit. 'Tricolor cockade') is the national ornament of France, obtained by circularly pleating a blue, white and red ribbon. It is composed of the three colors of the French flag, with blue in the center, white immediately outside and red on the edge.