Flag of France

The Flag of France is called the "Tricolour" (French: le drapeau tricolore). It was adopted 15 February 1794. It is blue, white and red. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing chose the current colors.

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Name	Tricolour
Use	National flag
Proportion	2:3
Adopted	June 1976 (Dark version first adopted on 15 February 1794)
Design	A vertical tricolour of blue, white, and red
Designed by	Lafayette, Jacques-Louis David
Variant flag of France
Use	National flag
Proportion	2:3
Adopted	5 March 1848 (First time adopted 15 February 1794)
Design	As above, but with the dark shades
File:Ensign of France.svg Variant flag of France
Use	National ensign
Proportion	2:3
Adopted	17 May 1853 (Previously the same as the national flag) Used in the darker shade
Design	As above, but with bars in proportion 30:33:37. (See French ensigns.)

History

There were a lot of flags in the history of France.

• Flag of France (XII-XIII).svg

  Flag of France in the 12th century

• Flag of France (XIV-XVI).svg

  Flag of France until the 14th century

• Royal Flag of France.svg

  Royal Flag of France (Bourbon Dynasty)

• Royal Standard of the King of France.svg

  Flag of the King of France

• Flag of France (1790–1794).svg

  Flag of France from 1790 until 1794

• Flag of France (1794–1815, 1830–1974).svg

  Flag of France during the Napoleonic Wars

• White flag of surrender.svg

  Flag of France from 1815 to 1848

• Drapeau france 1848.svg

  Flag of France in 1848

• Flag of Philippe Pétain, Chief of State of Vichy France.svg

  Flag of Vichy France

• Flag of Free France (1940-1944).svg

  Flag of Free France

• Flag of France (2020–present).svg

  Current Flag of France

Flag Of France Media

• Flag of France (colour shade comparison) 063712.svg

  A comparison of the lighter and darker versions of the flag

• Drapeau France Télévision.svg

  Flag used as a photographic backdrop

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  The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin was one of many world landmarks illuminated in the French flag colours after the November 2015 Paris attacks.

• The national flag of France at the Arc de Triomphe

• The white flag of the monarchy transformed into the Tricolore as a result of the July Revolution. Scenes of July 1830, painting by Léon Cogniet (1830)

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  Lamartine, before the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, rejects the Red Flag, 25 February 1848. By Henri Felix Emmanuel Philippoteaux

• The Oriflamme, the banner of the Capetians

• Pavillon royal de la France.svg

  The Royal Banner of France or "Bourbon Flag". The House of Bourbon ruled France from 1589 to 1792 and again from 1815 to 1848.