![]() ![]() While the Comte de Chambord, claimant to the French throne, never accepted the "tricolore," the royalists ended up rallying round the national flag at the time of the First World War. From 1880 onwards, the presentation of the colours to the armed forces, each July 14, came to be a moment of high patriotic fervour. Under the Third Republic, a consensus gradually emerged around the three colours. The white flag was re-introduced under the Restoration, but King Louis-Philippe reinstated the "tricolore," surmounting it with the Gallic rooster.ĭuring the Revolution of 1848, the provisional government adopted the "tricolore," but the people on the barricades brandished a red flag to signal their revolt. Throughout the 19th century, the blue of the legitimist royalists contended with the three colours inherited from the Revolution. At the recommendation of the painter Jacques-Louis David, the law stipulated that the blue should be flown nearest the flagstaff. The law of 27 pluviôse, Year II (February 15, 1794), established the "tricolore" as the national flag. On July 17, Louis XVI came to Paris to recognize the new National Guard, sporting the blue and red cockade, to which the Commander of the Guard, Marquis de Lafayette, it appears, had added the royal white. A militia was formed its distinctive sign was a two-colour cockade made up of the ancient colours of Paris, blue and red. In July 1789, just before the taking of the Bastille, Paris was in a state of high agitation. In the early days of the French Revolution, the three colours were initially brought together in the form of a cockade. ![]()
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