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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] It was established in 1985 and as part of the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques operates under the authority of the Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation .
The flags with the French flag in the canton, which on many occasions were already existing flags without the tricolour, resembled the British colonial flags, which originated as defacements of the British ensigns, which have the British Union Jack in the canton, and a red, white or blue fly.
Before the tricolour was adopted the royal government used many flags, the best known being a blue shield and gold fleurs-de-lis (the Royal Arms of France) on a white background, or state flag. Early in the French Revolution, the Paris militia, which played a prominent role in the storming of the Bastille , wore a cockade of blue and red, [ 4 ...
Under the Legislative Assembly, which was in power before the proclamation of the First Republic, France was engaged in war with Prussia and Austria.In July 1792, Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, commanding general of the Austro–Prussian Army, issued his Brunswick Manifesto, threatening the destruction of Paris should any harm come to King Louis XVI of France.
It is white between blue and red in the center of the logo, echoing the three colors of the French flag, and features an oak or apple tree, typical trees of the French terroir and "fetishes" of the French right. The oak, the tree of freedom par excellence, symbolizes in European culture durability, virility, power, stability and unity.
Flags of All Nations Volume I. National Flags and Ensigns (B.R.20(1) 1955), Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, (1955). Flags of All Nations Volume II. Standards of Rulers, Sovereigns and Heads of State; Flags of Heads of Ministries, and of Naval, Military, and Air Force Officers (B.R.20(2) 1958), Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London ...
French Guiana: 1643 1790 1794 1830 1958 1976 2010 French Guiana: French Polynesia: 1643 1790 1794 1814 1830 1976 1984 French Polynesia: Gibraltar: 1704 1801 1875 1921 1939 1982 Gibraltar: Greenland: 1606 1989 Greenland: Guernsey: 1801 1890 1936 1985 Guernsey: Hong Kong: 1843 1871 1876 1941 1945 1955 1959 1997 Hong Kong: Isle of Man: 1801 1932 ...
The 1791 red flag was the symbol of martial law and of order, not of insurrection. [2] Lamartine opposed popular aspirations, and in exchange of the maintaining of the tricolor flag, conceded the Republican motto of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, written on the flag, on which a red rosette was added. [2]