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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 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 flags with the French flag in the canton, which on many occasions were already existing flags without the tricolour, resembled the British colonial flags, which originated as defacements of the British ensigns, which have the British Union Jack in the canton, and a red, white or blue fly.
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.
Flag and coat of arms of Normandy; Flag and coat of arms of Île-de-France; Flag of Brittany; Flag of France; Flag of Franche-Comté; Flag of Paris; Flags of the regions of France; France in the Middle Ages; France in the early modern period; French colonial flags; French ensigns; Kingdom of Navarre; List of Breton flags; List of Corsican flags ...
Articles relating to the French flags. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. -Flags of Overseas France (1 C, 11 P) * ...
The Cross of Lorraine (French: Croix de Lorraine), known as the Cross of Anjou in the 16th century, is a heraldic two-barred cross, consisting of a vertical line crossed by two shorter horizontal bars. In most renditions, the horizontal bars are "graded" with the upper bar being the shorter, though variations with the bars of equal length are ...
Flag and coat of arms of Normandy; Flag and coat of arms of Île-de-France; Flag of Brittany; Flag of France; Flag of Franche-Comté; Flag of Paris; Flags of the regions of France; France in the Middle Ages; French colonial flags; French ensigns; House of Dreux; House of Plantagenet; Jean de La Baume; List of Breton flags; List of Corsican ...