February 15, 1794 in Paris Assembly of the Convention requires the tricolor blue-white-red. It
"decreed that from 1 Prairial (May 20, 1794), the pavilion will consist of three national colors arranged into three equal strips mounted vertically ...." to end the fancy colors in the French Navy, subject to confusion in battle.
The initiative came from a member of Montauban, the Rev. Andre Jeanbon, Jeanbon said Saint-Andre. The painter Louis David consulted, suggested for reasons of aesthetics that blue is fastened to the mast.
Each color history
The three colors of the French flag back to the origins of history.
- Red like the blood of Saint-Denis
In 1124, Holy Roman Emperor Henry V enters and threatens Champagne Paris. Capetian King Louis VI le Gros warns his vassals, all for the occasion, make silence their quarrels. The king himself went to fetch it on the altar of the abbey of Saint-Denis , north of Paris, the banner of the saint, the red blood of the martyr, for the brandish in rallying.
It therefore becomes customary for kings to France to raise the banner in times of great peril. This tradition was revived by Parisian revolutionaries rebelled against the king, so the red flag became the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, worldwide symbol of revolutionary struggles and working-class ... to be adopted by several states including communist China!
- White, the color of warlords
In 1188, when a crusade, King Philip Augustus sports a white banner with a cross of St. George red. White is thus associated with the monarchy ... and war. Two centuries later, Joan of Arc gets a white banner strewn with lilies, with the inscription "Jhesus Maria and two angels facing each other.
During the wars of religion, King Henry III of Navarre, later Henri IV and his fellow Protestants are used to develop a white scarf.
Legend has it that the "Great Corisande" , Andoins Diana, mistress of King of Navarre, who had suggested to it the sign of recognition before the Battle of Coutras . White, probably chosen for oppose the red color of the English troops and Catholic, or by reference to a form of evangelical purity, thus becoming the color of the Protestant clan, then, when Henry ascend the throne, one of the color reference French monarchy!
Only in 1815, under the Restoration, the white became the exclusive symbol of the monarchy.
- Blue bourgeois
Blue is a color appeared in the late medieval iconography. It is found in the twelfth century in the windows. Very quickly, it is associated with the Virgin and her mantle. But we also fix the colors of the burghers of Paris, in association with the red. The provost Étienne Marcel , in conflict with the royal power, makes the hood (bonnet) blue and red sign of rallying his supporters.
An international course
The kings of France until the Revolution, change their emblem as they wish and no one cares to worship their colors. The colors blue, white and red begin to emerge during the reign of King Henry IV (1589-1610). The "Vert-Galant" recommends these three colors to ambassadors Dutch make illico the emblem of their navy. So today, the blue-white-red is the flag of the Netherlands as on that of Luxembourg (the former Dutch possession).
first Tsar Peter the Great, who was in Amsterdam in the early eighteenth century, adopted the same colors for its vessels. Such as blue, white and red are found on the flag of Imperial Russia ... and Russia present. Emulate the Russians, Serbs adopt them in turn. They are now on the flag of Yugoslavia.
Even in France, the French guards had adopted the three colors on their uniform and the emblem of their regiment. They retained the passing side of the Revolution as the National Guard.
July 17, 1789, shortly after the storming of the Bastille, Louis XVI was welcomed at the Town Hall by a crowd wearing a rosette on the head with the colors of Paris, blue and red. The General People of Lafayette presents to the king in person like a cockade which he inserts the blank. It is arguably the "hero of two worlds" , who became famous alongside the American insurgents, lives in three colors reminiscent of the flag of the United States, where he had greatest admiration.
Became head of the National Guard July 31, 1789, La Fayette formalizes the tricolor cockade. He solemnly hands to the municipality of Paris. "I brought you a badge that will travel around the world ..." he said. He did not say so ...
The colors of the Nation
The choice made by the Convention in 1794 was confirmed in 1812 by Emperor Napoleon 1st and extended regiments the Army.
The restoration of the monarchy, from 1815 to 1830, requires the white flag, known to be wrong the traditional emblem of the kings of France.
Louis-Philippe 1, which fought at Valmy and Jemappes, up to three colors in 1830 so that by 1848, the Republicans are reluctant to keep them and look for the red flag.
must all the eloquence of Alphonse de Lamartine to preserve them. February 26, 1848 at the City Hall of Paris, the poet (58 years) is for the Republicans in these terms: "... the red flag, you own report, has never done that around the Champ de Mars, dragged through the people's blood in 1791 and 1793, and the tricolor has toured the world with the name, fame and freedom of the fatherland ".
On 14 July 1880, finally, under the Third Republic, the president Jules Grevy devotes popularity of this emblem by delivering solemnly to all bodies of the state.
I here is a plethora of information more or less fanciful vexillology ( "study flags " ) and the origin of the three colors. I'm grateful for my Jacques Boudet, author of the dictionary Words of History (Cambridge, 1998) for the quality and accuracy of its sources.
Vignolle Camille.
Source: http://www.herodote.net/histoire/evenement.php?jour=17940215
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