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  2. List of French flags - Wikipedia

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    Banner of the Kingdom of France: 1365–1792 1815–1830: Flag of the Kingdom of France & the Bourbon Restoration: 1791–1814: Flag of Armée des Émigrés: 1793–1800: Type of Catholic and Royal Army of Vendée flag: 1715–1789: State Flag by the Kingdom of France under the absolute monarchy. 1365–1794

  3. French colonial flags - Wikipedia

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    Some of the colonies, protectorates and mandates of the French Colonial Empire used distinctive colonial flags.These most commonly had a French Tricolour in the canton.. As well as the flags of individual colonies, the governors-general of French colonies flew a square flag with a blue field and the French ensign in the canton.

  4. Flag of France - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Saint-Domingue - Wikipedia

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    Many gens de couleur, the affranchis (ex-slaves) and Creole residents of the colony whose rights were restored by the French National Convention as part of the decree of 15 May 1792, asserted that they could form the military backbone of Republican Saint-Domingue; Sonthonax rejected this view as outdated in the wake of the August 1791 slave ...

  6. French ensigns - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Kingdom of France - Wikipedia

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    1792: French First Republic: 1815: ... Flag of the Kingdom of France, designed in the late 19th century. ... Before the 13th century, ...

  8. Timeline of national flags - Wikipedia

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    France: 1643 [citation needed] 1790 [citation needed] 1794 [6] 1814 1830 [7] 1940 1944 1958 1974 [8] 2020 [8] France: 1940 Gabon: 1903 1959 1960 Gabon: Gambia: 1783 1801 1965 Gambia: Georgia: 1008-1490 1801 1858 1883 1918 1921 1922 1937 1951 1990 2004 Georgia: Germany: 1400 1848 1867 1919 1933 1935 1946 1949 Germany: 1433 1949 1959 Ghana: 1821 ...

  9. Flag of Paris - Wikipedia

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    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.