The white color in the French Tricolor
flag originated from the royalist white flag under absolute monarchies before
the 1789 French Revolution, with the red and blue representing the heraldic
colors of the city of Paris. During the Second World War, Vichy-France
(German-occupied) used a plain tricolor flag while the Free French used a
“defaced” tricolor, wi…
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