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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.
The Kingdom of France is the historiographical name or umbrella term given to various political entities of France in the ... Flag of the Kingdom of France, designed ...
Description 1790–1794: Flag of Kingdom of France and French First Republic: 14 July 1790: Revolutionist flag: 21 January 1793: Revolutionist flag: 7 May 1794: Revolutionist flag: Similar to the Pre-Communist Yugoslavia. 1814–1830: Royal flag of Kingdom of France: 1848: Flag of French Second Republic: 1940–1944: Flag of Free France: 1943 ...
The cockade of France 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.
The Royal Banner of France or "Bourbon flag" symbolizing royal France, was the most commonly used flag in New France. [27] [28] The "Bourbon flag" has three gold fleur-de-lis on a dark blue field arranged two and one. [29] The fleur-de-lys was also seen on New France's currency often referred to as "card money". [30]
English: It was the Naval Ensign of the Kingdom of France (pure white version) as used before 1789, and between 1814/15 and 1830. Français : Le drapeau blanc fut le drapeau français pendant la Première Restauration et la Seconde Restauration (1814-1830).
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.
The royal arms of the Kingdom of France after the conclusion of the French Wars of Religion. Again the arms of the Kingdom of Navarre impaled with France Moderne, indicating the personal union of the two realms as a result of Henry IV becoming king. First Republic: 1791–1804 Putative heraldic emblem of the First French Republic: First Empire