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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 horizontally striped red-white-blue flag of the Netherlands originally inspired the colour scheme used by the French revolutionaries after the French Revolution in 1789. [2] [3] Consequently, the French tricolour flag is derived from the cockade of France used during the French Revolution. These were circular rosette-like emblems attached ...
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 tricolor cockade became the official symbol of the revolution in 1792, with the three colors now said to represent the three estates of French society: the clergy (blue), the nobility (white) and the third estate (red). [2] The use of the three colors spread, and a law of 15 February 1794 made them the colors of the French national flag. [4]
The colours of Paris are the origin of the blue and red stripes in the flag of France, while the white stripe originally symbolised the monarchy. [1] The French flag's colours were adopted as a cockade during the early stages of the French Revolution, when the country was still in the process of becoming a constitutional monarchy.
Flag of Brittany; Flag of France; Flag of Paris; Flags of the regions of France; France in the early modern period; François Christophe de Kellermann; François Joseph Lefebvre; François Joseph Westermann; François Séverin Marceau; French Americans; French Revolutionary Wars; French colonial flags; French ensigns; Gabriel, comte d'Hédouville
Flag of Brittany; Flag of France; Flags of the regions of France; Fourth Anglo-Dutch War; François Christophe de Kellermann; François Joseph Lefebvre; François Joseph Paul de Grasse; French colonial flags; French ensigns; French frigate Belle Poule (1766) French frigate Belle Poule (1834) French frigate Méduse (1810) French ship Annibal (1778)
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 ...