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While France does not have an official national flower, the fleur-de-lis, which was a symbol of the royal family, as well as the cornflower (blue), marguerite (white), and red poppy, which together represent the tri-colored national flag, are also generally treated as French national flowers.
A pure white flag: 1943–1945: Naval jack of Free France: The argent rhomboid field is defaced with a gules Lorraine cross. 10 August 1939–present: Flag of the Admiral of the French Navy: 10 August 1939–present: Flag of the Vice-Admiral D'escadre of the French Navy: Flag of the Vice-Admiral of the French Navy: Flag of the Contre-Admiral of ...
The national symbols of the French Fifth Republic are: [1] The French flag; The national anthem: "La Marseillaise" The national personification: Marianne; The national motto: Liberté, égalité, fraternité (Liberty, equality, fraternity) The national day: Bastille Day (celebrated on 14 July) The Gallic rooster; The lictor's fasces emblem
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.
Orders, decorations, and medals of France (5 C, 13 P) Pages in category "National symbols of France" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
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 Franco-American flag is an ethnic flag adopted at a Franco-American conference at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire in May 1983 to represent their New England community. It was designed by Robert L. Couturier, attorney and one-time mayor of Lewiston, Maine , to have a blue field with a white fleur-de-lis over a white five ...
French America (French: Amérique française), sometimes called Franco-America, in contrast to Anglo-America, is the French-speaking community of people and their diaspora, notably those tracing back origins to New France, the early French colonization of the Americas. The Canadian province of Quebec is the centre of the community and is the ...