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  2. List of French flags - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. Fleur-de-lis - Wikipedia

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    France moderne remained the French royal standard, and with a white background was the French national flag until the French Revolution, when it was replaced by the tricolor of modern-day France. The fleur-de-lis was restored to the French flag in 1814, but replaced once again after the revolution against Charles X in 1830.

  4. Flag of France - Wikipedia

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    [23] Joan's standard led to the prominent use of white on later French flags. [23] From the accession of the Bourbons to the throne of France, the green ensign of the navy became a plain white flag, the symbol of purity and royal authority. The merchant navy was assigned "the old flag of the nation of France", the white cross on a blue field. [24]

  5. File:Flag of France (1814–1830).svg - Wikipedia

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    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)

  6. National symbols of France - Wikipedia

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    The French flag is a tricolour that consists of three vertical stripes of equal width, coloured in royal blue, white, and red. It is the only official French emblem, according to article 2 of the current Constitution of France , adopted in 1958.

  7. Cockade of France - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. Liberté, égalité, fraternité - Wikipedia

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    Liberty, Equality, Fraternity or Death", together with symbols such as tricolour flags, phrygian cap and gallic rooster. Liberté, égalité, fraternité (French pronunciation: [libɛʁte eɡalite fʁatɛʁnite]), French for ' liberty, equality, fraternity ', [1] is the national motto of France and the Republic of Haiti, and is an example of a ...

  9. Coat of arms of France - Wikipedia

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    The fleur-de-lis was also the symbol of Île-de-France, the core of the French kingdom, and the arms of many French communes. The only national symbol specified in the present constitution is the tricolour flag in Article 2. [5]