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The fleur-de-lis was restored to the French flag in 1814, but replaced once again after the revolution against Charles X in 1830. After the end of the Second French Empire, Henri, comte de Chambord, was offered the throne as King of France, but he agreed only if France gave up the tricolor and brought back the white flag with fleurs-de-lis. [46]
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.
On the left is the Royalist banner featuring fleur-de-lis on a white background. On the second the royalist emblem of the flag has been shot away leaving the blue sky gaping behind it. In the third the right portion of the flag is soaked in the blood of the martyrs of the revolution, giving it the appearance of the French tricolour. [2]
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 ...
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.
The colors of the rings — blue, yellow, black, green, and red — along with the white background were selected because every national flag in the world at that time contained at least one of ...
The flag was designed by Craig Byrnes in 1995 with a series of neutral toned stripes in shades of brown, yellow, tan, white, gray and black adorned with a paw print in the top left corner.
The French colours of the Ancien Régime got the same design: a white cross, the Cross of France (vertical cross, but sometimes it was a St Andrew's cross, like the "Royal Deux Ponts" Régiment's flag). The rest of the standard was depending on the regiment. Often, the Cross of France divided the flag in four equal quarters.