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 ]

Feb 7, 2022 · On the 18th of February 1800, the British captured the flag from the French warship Le Généreux. The city of Norwich, England inherited the historic flag. It is still there to this day.

Dec 5, 2024 · Its giant tricolor flag—towering in size and ambition—was a vivid declaration of France’s defiance. The blue, white, and red bands were not merely decorative; they symbolized liberty, equality, and fraternity, the principles that underpinned France’s Revolutionary fervor.

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 …

After the July Revolution (the Three Glorious years), Louis-Philippe duke of Orléans, lieutenant general of the Kingdom, restored the tricolor flag by the ordinance of 1st August 1830 and became Louis-Philippe Ist King of the French.

Feb 15, 2017 · A huge 217-year-old flag captured from a French battleship by Admiral Lord Nelson is set to go on display for the first time in more than 100 years. The ensign of Généreux, which is roughly the...

Feb 15, 2017 · A French flag presented to Norwich by Admiral Lord Nelson after it was captured in battle is to go on display for the first time in 100 years. The ensign of Le Genereux, believed to be one of...

Apr 10, 2017 · This vast Tricolour is a Napoleonic-era ensign captured from the French warship Le Généreux by Captain Sir Edward Berry in February 1800.

Apr 6, 2024 · In 1814, France was invaded by a coalition led by Prussia and Napoléon I abdicated on 4-6 April. The dethroned Emperor was exiled on Elba Island (Italy). In March 1815, Napoléon escaped from Elba and reestablished the Empire in France.

Inspiring hundreds of thousands in the French Revolution, these colors became the symbols of nationalism in the late 18th century. After the French Revolution, the dark version of the flag was adopted but with the consideration, the brighter version was adopted in the previous century.