 The current French ensign, with proportions different from those of the French flag. A French ensign is the flag flown at sea to identify a vessel as French. Several such ensigns have existed over the years as well as terrestrial flags based on the ensign motif. Image File history File links French-Ensign. ...
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Ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy. ...
Current Ensign The current French ensign is not, as the casual observer would think, identical to the French Flag. Though both are blue, white and red, the French civil ensign has those colours in the proportion blue 30, white 33, and red 37. The intention is in fact to create a flag which, when seen moving at some distance, will appear to have columns of equal width. Flag Ratio: 2:3 The national flag of France (known in French as le drapeau tricolore, le drapeau bleu-blanc-rouge, le drapeau de la France, rarely, le tricolore and, colloquially, les couleurs) is a tricolour featuring three vertical bands coloured blue (hoist side), white, and red. ...
Historic Ensigns
The royal Arms As with the ensigns of other countries, the French ensign in the beginning of the 14th century was a banner of the royal arms, blue filled with golden French lilies. Sometimes it bears a white cross. This 14th-century statue from south India depicts the gods Shiva (on the left) and Uma (on the right). ...
In 1365, Charles V changed to a blue flag with just three golden French lilies. However, reports as late as 1514 still occasionally mention the use of the lilies and cross flag. Events Foundation of the University of Vienna Births John de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros (died 1394) Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk (died 1399) Deaths May 17 - Louis VI the Roman, elector of Brandenburg (born 1328) July 27 - Duke Rudolf IV of Austria (born 1339) Categories: 1365 ...
Charles V the Wise (French: Charles V le Sage) (January 31, 1338 – September 16, 1380) was king of France (1364 to 1380) and a member of the Valois Dynasty. ...
1514 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Occasionally illustrations from this era too show the white cross, now on a red field, but this is mostly limited to the coats of arms only. After 1450, however, those two designs are often seen flying side by side. Events March - French troops under Guy de Richemont besiege the English commander in France, Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, in Caen April 15 - Battle of Formigny. ...
The colours of Bourbon
 By the time of the House of Bourbon, the royal colours had merged making blue, red, and white the royal colours; Henry IV of France even had his entire entourage dress in these colours. These colours, for these or other reasons, also became the colours of the French ensigns. A plain white ensign indicated the French sailing fleet, a red flag a galley, while the blue flag was flown by the merchant ships. It's somewhat unclear whether all of these were plain flags. Eg. in 1661 the use of white flags on merchant ships is explicitly forbidden, pointing the merchants instead to the "old flag of the French nation", which then was supposed to be a white cross on blue, with on it the royal arms. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1500x1000, 80 KB) Enseigne (approximative) de la Marine Royale Work by Rama French Navy File links The following pages link to this file: French ship Soleil-Royal (1670) History of the French Navy French ship Belle Poule (1765) ...
The House of Bourbon is an important European royal house. ...
Henry IV (French: Henri IV; December 13, 1553–May 14, 1610), was the first of the Bourbon kings of France, reigning from 1589 until his death. ...
A decade or so later, the rule for the merchant navy was modified, however, to allow every kind of ensign, provided it wasn't all white. This caused two new types of French ensigns: regional or local flags flown as French ensign, and personal designs intended to show as much white as was possible without it being considered all white.
The colours of the revolution Until the French Revolution most merchants flew designs composed of blue and white. In 1790, however, the revolution joined all three colours in one flag, and the new ensign became the white flag with a canton of three equal columns of red, white, and blue. Since the white field was too royal for the taste of the revolution, on 27 pluviôse year II of the French Republican Calendar, the flag and the ensign were changed to the design of the current flag of France: Three columns of equal width, of blue, white, and red. The same banner was again decreed to be the flag on 7 March 1848. The French Revolution (1789-1799) was a period in the history of France. ...
1790 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
Pluviôse (also Pluviose) was the fifth month in the French Republican Calendar. ...
The French Republican Calendar or French Revolutionary Calendar is a calendar proposed during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about twelve years from late 1793. ...
March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in Leap years). ...
1848 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
To counter the effect that the fly of an ensign appears to shorten when moving in the wind, the widths of the columns were regulated anew on 17 May 1853, now as 30:33:37. May 17 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (138th in leap years). ...
1853 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
French colonial flags A number of flags used by French colonies are similar to British ensigns that were adopted by colonies throughout the British Empire except that they use the French tricolour in place of the Union Jack. For more information on these flags see French colonial flags. Map of the first (light blue) and second (dark blue — plain and hachured) French colonial empires. ...
The White Ensign. ...
In politics and in history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a geographically-distant state. ...
The British Empire was, at one time, the foremost global power, and the most extensive empire in the history of the world. ...
Flag Ratio: 1:2 The Union Flag or Union Jack is the flag most commonly associated with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and was also used throughout the former British Empire. ...
Some of the colonies, protectorates and mandates of the French Colonial Empire used distinctive colonial flags. ...
See also The modern Blue Ensign of the United Kingdom The British Blue Ensign (1707–1801) English Blue Ensign as it appeared in the seventeenth century. ...
The Red Ensign, as currently used by the United Kingdoms Merchant Navy The Red Ensign is a flag that originated in the early 1600s as an ensign flown by the Royal Navy. ...
The White Ensign. ...
This is a list of all flags available here, mostly national and regional flags. ...
Flags are particularly important at sea, where they can mean the difference between life and death, and consequently where the rules and regulations for the flying of flags are strictly enforced. ...
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