French Flag 1600
Le Tricolore, the national flag of France This list includes flags that either have been in use or are currently used by France, French overseas collectivites, the sui generis collectivity and the French overseas territory. 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.
The first French banner known is the one of king Louis VII leaving for the crusade of 1147: just like the coronation clothes it was blue scattered with gold lily flowers, in order to signify to the world that the chosen ones (the heavenly Jerusalem) helped him. Charles V (1364-1380) reduced the fleurs. What did the French flag look like in 1763? From 1534 to 1763 the royal banner of France was the the most commonly used flag in New France (east and Central Canada) during the French regime.
Flag of the French from 1370-1600
This flag displayed three gold fleur-de-lis on a dark blue field ("Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or, arranged two and one"). Flag of France, vertically striped blue-white-red national flag. Blue and red are the traditional colors of Paris, while white is associated with the House of Bourbon.
The flag was seen to embody all the principles of the Revolution: liberty, equality, fraternity, democracy, secularism, and modernization. The most important flag carried by explorers and settlers was most likely this royal flag. In the early sixteenth century the French royal flag was blue with three gold fleurs.
French Flag 1600
The coat of arms was the basis for a new French flag. When the Bourbons took over the crown, the background of the flag changed to white in honour of their family colours, but the fleurs-de-lis remained. The current French flag is called the tricolore.
It consists of three equal vertical stripes of blue, white, and red. Flag of Free France during WWII The three colours in vertical stripes were first used as a canton on Naval flags in 1790, and extended to the whole field in 1794. The French National Convention adopted the modern blue-white-red flag as the national flag on February 15, 1794 (27 pluviôse an.
French Flag In The 1600s
II in the revolutionary calendar). The flag of France before the French Revolution featured the fleur-de-lis on a blue background. The Bourbon family who ruled from the late 1500's to the time of the French Revolution (and for a short while in the 1800s) had a white flag with gold fleur.
Possessions of the first French Colonial Empire (until 1763) mostly used flags such as the White Cross or the Fleurdelysé flags, while the French Republic used mostly the Tricolore, and a few specific flags, such as governor's flags (see below). French fleur-de-lis aka "Lilly Banner" This flag was used from 1400 until 1590. The most important flag carried by explorers and settlers was most likely the royal flag, since this was a symbol of authority of the king in the new lands.
This flag represented directly the shield in the royal French coat of arms.
