The Flag of France is called the "Tricolour" (French: le drapeau tricolore). It was adopted 15 February 1794. It is blue, white and red. The current colors are the ones that Valéry Giscard d'Estaing chose.
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Images for kids
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Multiple French flags as commonly flown from public buildings.
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The White flag of the monarchy transformed into the Tricolore as a result of the July Revolution, 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.
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The French soldiers started to use white crosses, during the Hundred Years' War, to distinguish themselves from the English soldiers wearing red crosses (battle of Formigny).
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Regimental flag of the 1st Regiment of Grenadiers of the French Imperial Guard (1812).
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Current regimental flags of the 1st and 2nd Regiments of the French Foreign Legion
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