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2. Flag of New Orleans - Wikipedia

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   The flag of New Orleans contains a large white field that contains three gold fleurs-de-lis and is bordered on the top by a red stripe and from below by a blue stripe. The presence of the fleur-de-lis, a stylized depiction of a flower and a traditional French symbol demonstrates the city's French heritage and strong ties to France, while the presence of the design being a Spanish fess ...

3. Fleur-de-lis - Wikipedia

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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]

4. List of French flags - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. French heraldry - Wikipedia

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   The fleur-de-lys (or fleur-de-lis, plural: fleurs-de-lis; / ˌ f l ɜːr d ə ˈ l iː /, [ˌflœː(ʀ)dəˈlɪs] in Quebec French), translated from French as "lily flower") is a stylized design of either an iris or a lily that is now used purely decoratively as well as symbolically, or it may be "at one and the same time political, dynastic ...

6. Flag of France - Wikipedia

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   The merchant navy was assigned "the old flag of the nation of France", the white cross on a blue field. [24] There also was a red jack for the French galleys. A variant of the plain white Bourbon banner, a white field strewn with gold fleur de lis, was also sometimes seen.

7. National symbols of France - Wikipedia

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   The letters "RF", standing for République Française (French Republic) The National Order of the Legion of Honour and the National Order of Merit; The Phrygian cap; Joan of Arc; Fleur-de-lis; Bleuet de France, the symbol of memory for, and solidarity with, veterans, victims of war, widows, and orphans, similar to the Commonwealth remembrance ...

8. List of communal flags in France - Wikipedia

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   The former flag is white and displays a red fleur-de-lis in the centre. The fleur-de-lis comes from the former municipal logo. 1945-1987: Banner of arms. 1926-1939: Banner of arms, designed by Émile Théodore. Used till World War II: Malo-les-Bains, Nord: Mardyck, Nord: The flag consists of six horizontal stripes in the colours blue and yellow.

9. French colonial flags - Wikipedia

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   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 ...