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9 unusual facts about flag of France


Bleu, blanc et rouge

The Flag of France, whose colors are given as "bleu, blanc et rouge"

Edgar Everaert

According to the official version the colors of the team's uniform (red, white and blue) were influenced by the Flag of France but some people think that it was actually influenced by the Flag of Bruges which red and white stripes show a stronger correspondence with the team's jersey than the French flag does.

Flag of France

The three colours are occasionally taken to represent the three elements of the revolutionary motto, liberté (freedom: blue), égalité (equality: white), fraternité (brotherhood: red); this symbolism was referenced in Krzysztof Kieślowski's three colours film trilogy, for example.

Ghevont Alishan

While in France, Alishan also designed a second flag inspired by the national Flag of France, identified today as the "Nationalist Armenian Flag." Its colors were red, green, and blue respectively, representing the band of colors that Noah saw after landing on Mount Ararat.

Jean de Lattre de Tassigny

Those marching in the funeral processions, following the gun carriage on which the tricolor-covered coffin was carried, included members of the French cabinet, judges, bishops, and Western military leaders.

Music on Console

Here a screenshot of a modified theme containing the French Tricolour as an example of what can be achieved.

Pierre Charles Chesnelong

Through some misunderstanding, he reported on his return that the count had accepted all the terms offered, including the retention of the drapeau tricolore - the Count published a formal denial, which brought about his own downfall.

Rassemblement Wallonie France

The blue, white, and red represent the colours of the French national flag.

The Three Colors trilogy

Blue, white, and red are the colours of the French flag in left-to-right order, and the story of each film is loosely based on one of the three political ideals in the motto of the French Republic: liberty, equality, fraternity.


Entente cordiale

In both London Waterloo International and Paris Gare du Nord, the flags of the United Kingdom and of France are depicted connected with the words 'Entente cordiale' superimposed on posters.

Flag of Belgium

On August 26, 1830, the day after the rioting at the Brussels Opera and the start of the Belgian Revolution, the flag of France was flown from the city hall of Brussels.

Operation Charnwood

On 10 July the French flag was raised over the city and three days later a parade was held in the Place Saint-Martin during which a second flag was raised to the strains of Scottish bagpipers playing La Marseillaise.


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Luc-la-Primaube

La Primaube counts also two memorials a war memorial represent a soldier of the war of 14 dead and another more recent monument with the memory of the soldiers aveyronnais dead for France in Algeria, Maroc and Tunisia or is laid out a flag of France is a tablet representing the chart of Aveyron as well as the names of aveyronnais which fell in Algeria.