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	Flag of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The national flag of France is known to English speakers as the French tricolor (American English), the French tricolour (British English), or the tricolore.
		Flag of a regiment of the Napoleonic era (3rd Swiss regiment), with the blue and red patrs in the corner, and the white part as a losange bearing inscriptions.
		The vertical striped flag was adopted by the army in 1812, replacing the previous flags which were often a white cross on red and blue.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flag_of_France (984 words)

	French Polynesia
		The decree from 4 December 1985 regulates the use of the flag and prescribes that the flags of the archipelagos and islands of French Polynesia may be hoisted along with the colours of the Territory and the Nation [i.e.
		In 1970 the red-white-red flag (with equal stripes) was prohibited by the French authorities.
		It was identified by FOTW as being the flag of French President François Mitterand.
	www.fotw.us /flags/pf.html (2067 words)

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		flag of the colonial governors 1891-1919 (germany)
		flags of the deputy minister of defence (brunei)
		marco lino’s flag proposals for a “portuguese confederation”
	www.1uptravel.com /flag/flags/keywordc.html (1694 words)

	Historical Flags (Wallis and Futuna) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The second flag is a white field with a [Greek] cross in each corner (respectively blue, red, red and blue) and in the middle the monogram of the Blessed Virgin (red A superimposed on a blue M).
		It was adopted on 4 November 1842 during the ratification of a protectorate treaty between the King of Uvea and Captain Mallet, commander of the warship L'Embuscade ["Ambush"], in the presence of Father Bataillon.
		According to Lucien Philippe 1999, "In November 1887, Father Bouzigue wrote: "The Queen and her Prime Minister have thanked France represented by Commandant Benier and the flag of Wallis quartered with the French flag was hoisted".
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/wf-his.html (549 words)

	Historical Flags (French Polynesia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		For example, the protectorate established by France on Tahiti in 1842-1843 was associated with the expulsion of the Anglican missionaries and nearly triggered a war between France and United Kingdom.
		All the flags described in the Flags of Paradise 1996 chart are based on blue, white and red colours.
		The evolution is quite similar for different kingdoms: first a "local" flag, then the same with the French tricolour in canton when protectorate is established and finally discarding of the flag after annexion (replaced with the French tricolour).
	www.fotw.us /flags/pf_his.html (311 words)

	Encyclopedia: France
		During the French Revolution (1789-1799) democracy and republicanism replaced the absolute monarchy in France, and the French sector of the Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo radical restructuring.
		Flag of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community The Secretariat of the Pacific Community or SPC is a regional intergovernmental organisation whose membership includes both nations and territories.
		Emblem of the Brussels-Capital Region Flag of The City of Brussels Brussels (French: Bruxelles, Dutch: Brussel, German: BrÃ¼ssel) is the capital of Belgium, the French community of Belgium, the Flemish community and of the European Union.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/France (8682 words)

	French Polynesia
		French Polynesia consists of five island groups: the Society Islands (including Tahiti and Raiatea); the Marquesas Islands ("Hiva"); the Tuamotu Archipelago (including Mangareva, also known as the Îles Gambier); the Austral Islands (or Îles Tubuai); and Clipperton Island (an atoll 1000 km off the Mexican coast).
		This is the flag of the pro-independence Tavini party - as seen during television broadcasts of the pro-independence riots in Tahiti, mid-1996.
		Prominently displayed was a flag, a horizontal tricolour of red white and red, with a central emblem on the white band which appeared to be a garland of green leaves around a yellow sun in splendour.
	www.hbtrading.com /pf.html (822 words)

	France: Former colonial possessions overseas
		In the Near East, the territories under trusteeship of the French Republic consisted of the Alaouite State (Lattaquié), Alep, Hatay (Alexandretta), Lebanon, Syria and the Sanjak of Damas and the Jabel Druze (Souaida).
		Possessions of the first French Colonial Empire (until 1763) mostly used flags such as the White Cross or the Fleurdelysé flags, while the French Republic used mostly the Tricolore, and a few specific flags, such as marks of office.
		The use of the French flag is therefore the rule, while the use of local flags is the exception.
	flagspot.net /flags/fr-colon.html (1614 words)

	France: Former colonial possessions overseas
		Possessions of the first French Colonial Empire (until 1763) mostly hoisted flags such as the White Cross or the Fleurdelysé flags, while the French Republic used mostly the plain Tricolore, and a few specific flags, such as marks of office.
		The same is true for the Cajun flag of Louisiana, even though this territory remained French until the beginning of the 19th century.
		Note that the current flag of Martinique was already flying under the Old Regime: it is one of the very few specific French colonial flags of that era.
	www.1uptravel.com /flag/flags/fr-colon.html (1347 words)

	Wallis and Futuna (France)
		While researching flags for my chart Flags of Paradise 1996 (Pacific Ocean), I came to the conclusion that the flag of (...) Wallis and Futuna Islands (...) flies both separately and along side the French tricolour [and] is the same basic design as shown in Znamierowski 1999 (see under Unofficial Variants).
		The triangles signify three native kings of the islands, and the French administrator; the French tricolour is a reference to French sovereignty.
		Except for this addition the flag is the same as that which dates from the time of the reign of King I. Lavelua in the 19th century.
	www.fotw.net /flags/wf.html (487 words)

	Martinique (France, Overseas Department) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The official flag is the French one, but there is a banner of the arms: a blue field with a white cross, and in each canton a white snake in the form of an 'L'.
		It was the flag for the former French colony of Saint-Lucia/Martinique.
		That flag was introduced by law of 4 August 1766 "for all the ships of the [French] colonies of Martinique and St. Lucia".
	flagspot.net /flags/mq.html (1286 words)

	France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The French Republic or France (French République Française or France), is a country located in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Andorra, and Spain.
		Although the French monarchy is often dated to the 5th century, France's continuous existence as a separate entity begins with the 9th-century division of Charlemagne's Frankish empire into an eastern and a western part.
		They continue to use the French Pacific Franc as their currency, which was unaffected by the French franc's replacement by the Euro in 2002.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/france_1.html (1918 words)

	Vanuatu
		The goofed flag shown on the Flags of Paradise 1996 chart, with a two-branch yellow Y (the two disconnected branches being separated by a large fl stripe connected to the fl triangle).
		The book also shows the flag of Tanna, but according to this information, it is the same (or very similar, because the shade of blue is lighter) as the flag of the Vemerana Federation - a blue background with a green star in the center.
		I think that the flag attribued to Tanna is only a proposal, a previous flag, or a mistake, because I'm sure that at the time of independence the flags (I know three patterns) hoisted included a yellow circle.
	flagspot.net /flags/vu.html (942 words)

	Guadeloupe (France, Overseas Department) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The flag of Guadeloupe is a banner of the arms: a red field with yellow sugar cane and a blue stripe with fleurs-de-lys at the bottom.
		This flag is a banner of the arms of Pointe-a-Pitre, the island's main city, and is (seldom) used to symbolize the whole island.
		I have had confirmation that the flag flown for Guadeloupe in Guadeloupe is indeed the version with a BLACK field (unlike the one presently posted on the ws, which has a red field).
	www.fotw.net /flags/gp.html (355 words)

	Historical Flags (Vanuatu)
		I don't know about the French flag during the condominium (probably something straight-forward and logical like the Tricolour), but the British was something like this.
		French Tricolour with a red Lorraine Cross in the white stripe.
		French Tricolour with French Tricolour and Union Jack, rotated 270° and placed side by side in the white stripe.
	www.fotw.net /flags/vu_nh.html (513 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Lagarde, The French in Texas
		There, "French" was related to everything French in Texas or about Texas, from the dreams and wrecks of La Salle, Champ d'Asile, and Reunion to the 1920s French pulp fiction on Texas cowboys and Indians, Alcatel's growth in Dallas, Alliances Françaises, and the French campaign against the death penalty in Texas.
		The French flag is the second of the six, after Spain and before Mexico, and it recognizes La Salle's landing at Matagorda Bay in 1685.
		Texas was French until La Salle died in 1687, and it became French for a second brief period--this time not represented on the fleur-de-lis flag--when Louisiana was returned to France in 1801 in the Treaty of Aranjuez and sold in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exlagfre.html (2327 words)

	THE NEWS BLOG
		On top of all that, French casualties from tropical diseases soon exceeded their battle dead, and when the rainy season started in October, the army was completely immobilized.
		Loyalty to the monarchy and hatred of the French were sufficiently strong to produce a twelve-year guerrilla resistance against the French.
		With the French in hot pursuit of the fleeing court, the would-be rebels were unable to reach the mountain retreat they had selected in advance.
	stevegilliard.blogspot.com /2004/12/colonial-wafare-pt-15.html (2088 words)

	St. Louis in Colonial & Revolutionary War Times
		This was a French corruption of an Illini word identifying a rival tribe, not the river.
		Note: St. Ange, formerly the French military commandant of Ft. de Chartres, was elected by "popular authority" as Lt. Governor in St. Louis until the arrival of the official Spanish government.
		Since St. Louis' population at that time was primarily French extraction, the French flag, was allowed to fly for one day prior to the transfer to the United States.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/mo/county/stlouis/colonial.htm (2002 words)

	Annam (Indochina) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A yellow flag with the French tricolour in the canton.
		as with some other French colonial flags of the period, the tricolour height is equal to 1/3 of the hoist.
		Almost square yellow flag bordered (from inside) green, white, red and blue, with a small tricolour in the canton of the yellow field.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/vn_i-anm.html (303 words)

	Guadeloupe (France, Overseas Department) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Maybe a sort of "tourist flag", but the only official flag is the French one.
		This flag is unofficial but is tolerated with the French flag.
		No flags of that design were on sale at local souvenir shops, but iron-on (or sew-on) patches were available, all with the red field, As was made clear, only the French tricolor is official, and this flag.
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/gp.html (355 words)

	Dueling Banners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Flags have always been important in military affairs, and this is certainly true in Ghana, where flags carry messages of pride and defiance.
		The emblem in the canton (the top inner quarter) helps to date the flags: variations of the British Union Jack appeared until Ghana’s independence in 1957, when the Ghanaian tricolor replaced the colonial symbol.
		Many of the flags pictured here, as well as several others, are on display at the Textile Museum through August 12, 2001.
	www.smithsonianmag.si.edu /smithsonian/issues01/aug01/ghana_flags.html (437 words)

	CNN - Vietnam opens summit of French-speaking nations - November 14, 1997
		Flags of all 49 Francophone members, including the absent Congo and St. Lucia, were put up outside the building.
		The participants were also welcomed by a group of Vietnamese children who spoke in French and wished the summit success.
		The French, who colonized Vietnam in 1884, lost to Vietnam on the military battlefield decades later, leading to French Indochina's breakup in 1954.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9711/14/vietnam.francophone (599 words)

	FREE FRANCE
		He was a little-known Army officer and junior government minister at the time of the French surrender, but his radio broadcast to the French people from London on 18 June 1940 (see below) struck a spark that rekindled the spirit of the nation under the flag of Free France.
		The plain French Tricolor was not abandoned, however; both Free France and the puppet government in Vichy continued to claim it as their own.
		This flag was hoisted at Darfour in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan on the occasion of a visit by General de Gaulle in 1941.
	tmg110.tripod.com /freefr.htm (1092 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In 1674, the French gained their first foothold in the sleepy little town by the Hooghly.
		It is not just the past that the French wish to cherish, for the country lives on in the nooks and crannies of present-day Chandernagore too.
		The film shows how history is alive on the streets of the former French colony, says Payal Mohanka, who produced and directed the docu-feature.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030320/asp/calcutta/story_1782490.asp (447 words)

	Constituent Kingdoms (Wallis and Futuna) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the French territory of Wallis and Futuna Islands, existed three kingdoms: Uvéa (in Wallis, the main island) and Alo and Sigave (in Futuna, in the Horn Group that includes Futuna, Alofi and some minor reefs).
		The flags of Sigave and Alo (in fact royal standards) have the French flag in the upper fly, fimbrated white and without touching the edges of the flag.
		It seems that the French flag is in the fly (without touching the edges) in all the royal standards and in the canton (touching the edges) in all the national flags in the islands.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/wf-.html (529 words)

	Amazon.com: The World Encyclopedia of Flags: The Definitive Guide to International Flags, Banners, Standards and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		One thing you learn about flags is that a new national flag will replace an old one somewhere in the world at reasonably regular intervals, because of political changes.
		Alfred Znamierowski compiled this exhaustive work on flags, the meanings behind the colors, flag families, parts of flags, and flags of countries, states, organization, of revolution and politics.
		It isn't just that he gives all the flags of the world's contemporary countries as UN members, but he lists and depicts the 8 or 9 secessionists who are dba as independent countries, recognition or not, UN membership or not.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0754801675?v=glance (1687 words)

	[TMP] SFD Services Ltd.
		The number of flags per sheet varies depending on their size and or numbers per unit, the physical size of the flag, and the technology used to produce the sheet.
		That is a flag for the 1st and 2nd battalions of the 32nd Light Infantry, 26th, 66th, and 82nd Line Infantry Regiments.
		Flags and banners designed for use with the BandB Miniatures "March or Die" range of 20mm scale figures.
	theminiaturespage.com /man/sfd (286 words)

	Flags Over America - The Colonial Period
		The flag represents a Spain newly united under the royal houses of Aragon (the rampant lions) and Castile (the castles).
		After the adoption of the Union Flag (below), this flag was still flown on the foremast of English merchant ships, with the Union flag on the mainmast (Scottish ships had the St. Andrew flag on the foremast).
		This is the personal flag of George Calvert, the First Lord Baltimore, who visited Virginia in 1629 and liked it so much he became the proud owner of Maryland, and sent the ships Ark and Dove to settle it a few years later.
	americanrevolution.org /flags.html (538 words)

	French Foreign Legion La Legion Etrangere French Foreign Legion
		It was succeeded in 1951 by the 3rd Battalion of Colonial Parachutists.
		Memoir of an Englishman in the French Foreign Legion during the Syrian campaign of the late 1920s relates the brutal story of life in the Legion and war in the deserts of Syria.
		French text but hundreds of self-explanatory color photos of this efficient unit in airborne, canine, firearms training and active ops against terrorists and hijackers.
	www.warbooks.com /france.html (1860 words)

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