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Flag of Kingdom of France and French First Republic: 14 July 1790: Revolutionist flag: 21 January 1793: Revolutionist flag: 7 May 1794: Revolutionist flag: 1814–1830: Royal flag of Kingdom of France: 1848: Flag of French Second Republic: 1940–1944: Flag of Free France: 1943–1944: Flag of the Milice
The national flag used during the First Empire was the blue-white-red Tricolore flag. Ivan Sache, 16 December 2001. The return of Napoléon from Elba. The return of Napoléon to France from Elba Island on 1 March 1815 was the first step of the reestablishment of the First Empire for a short period, which ended with the battle of Waterloo.
The eagle and bee, emblems of the First and later Second Empire, have become so familiar that it is easy to forget their origin and meaning. The creation of the coat of arms Proclaimed Emperor of the French on 28 Floréal, An XII (18 May, 1804), Napoleon approached the problem of the emblems of sovereignty on 23 Prairial (12 juin) during a ...
Banner of France (1147) Banner of France (13XX-1XXX) The first French banner known is the one of king Louis VII leaving for the crusade of 1147 : just like the coronation clothes it was blue scattered with gold lily flowers, in order to signify to the world that the chosen ones (the heavenly Jerusalem) helped him.
The First French Empire, officially the French Republic, then the French Empire after 1809 and also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.
The three colours in vertical stripes were first used as a canton on Naval flags in 1790, and extended to the whole field in 1794. The French National Convention adopted the modern blue-white-red flag as the national flag on February 15, 1794 (27 pluviôse an. II in the revolutionary calendar). The relevant part of the decree says, in translation:
