France Flag
The French flag is one of the oldest flag of the world, so the French flag history is also old has roots in the 17th century. The flag of France has not experienced that many variations. Some variations were occurred on the flag France like regarding the color arrangement on the France flag. The original adoption of the flag of France was happened on 1790, but that flag of France was different as compared to the current national flag France. As in the old flag the red color vertical strip came at the hoist part while the blue color strip was at the flown side. But later on in 1794, the design was altered and the arrangement of the color strips changed. These changes are now part of current French national flag. But when the France was defeated by the Napoleon 1, at the ground of waterloo, then he banned the use of French flags in the country. In 1830, the France again gained its independence with the struggle of Lafayette and the flag of France once again become the official French flag and is still used as the French national flag without any changes.
The other name of nick name of the French flag is “French Tricolor”. Most of the world flags are inspired from the design of the France flag.
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The description of the French flag is simple, and if some one ask a question that how many colors are on the flag of France then the answer to this question would be very simple; there are three French flag colors. The flag of French is made in the proportion of 2:3. The flag is divided vertically into three parts. The first vertical strip on the French flag is of blue color, the second vertical strip on the flag of France is of white color, while the last vertical strip on the French flags is of red color. All the three strips on the flag are of equal size. No complicated emblem is drawn on the French flag.
The meaning behind the France flag is not controversial but different according to the different writers. The theme of all the writers regarding the meaning behind the France flag colors is same. But the actual and traditional meanings of the French flag colors are: the blue color on the flag depicts the Saint Martin. He was a wealthy officer of Gallo-Roman. He was a generous person; in a snowy day a poor people was begging him so he divided his cloak (type of veil) with his sword and presented one part to that poor person. So the blue color depict the generosity, care for the poor people by rich people of the society. The white color on the flag depicts the Virgin Mary; she was sanctified by the France Kingdom in 17th century by Louis 13. The white color depicts the royally. The red color on the flag depicts the saint Denis; the initial saint of Paris.
There are many other different flags of France, other than the French national flag, which are used within the country. These France flags are state France flag, navel France flag, military France flag and some other. The big French flag is flown at the Independence Day of the France and on some sports festivals. The picture of the French flag can be downloaded from internet both in animated and static form along with the detail information of the France. Also the maps of the France flag are available on internet free of cost and can also be bought from market.
