France

  • Recently, France has changed its Flag colour to darker navy blue to honour its heroic past.
  • The navy blue colour "evokes the memory" of the heroes who fought in the French Revolution, the trenches of World War I and in the Resistance during World War II.
  • The red-white-and-blue tricolour has now a darker navy blue colour rather than the previous bright blue.
  • The then president Valery Giscard d'Estaing switched the brighter blue in 1976 so that it matched the colour of the European flag which displays yellow stars on a blue ....
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