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Last modified: 2013-02-24 by ivan sache
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• National emblems
• Subnational flags
• Official flags
• Historical flags
• Military flags
• Political flags
• Religious flags
• Corporate flags
• Associations' flags
• Sports and recreation flags
• Flags in arts
• Supranational flags
• Bordering countries
• External sites of interest

National emblems

• France: main page
• Symbols of the Republic
• France: Laws and regulations on the national flag
• Flag on monuments
• Naval flags
• Honour jacks
• Improper use of the French flag
• Non-vexillological use of the national flag
  • The AMGOT banknotes (1944)

Subnational flags

• Metropolitan [European] France (France métropolitaine)
  • Regions (Régions)
    • Clickable map of regions
  • Departments (Départements)
    • Clickable map of departments
  • Municipalities (Communes)
  • Intermunicipal Authorities
  • Traditional provinces (Provinces)
    • Clickable map of provinces
  • Other entities
    • Basque Country (Pays Basque - Euskadi - País Vasco)
    • Clipperton Island
    • Occitania
    • Republic of Saugeais
    • Principality of Barnenez
• Overseas France (France d'outre-mer)

Official flags

• Standard of the President of the Republic
• The "President's" Tricolor flag with a narrow white stripe
• Standards of Ministers
• Ministry of Agriculture and Fishery
  • Fishery inspection
• Ministry of Finance
  • Customs
• Ministry of the Interior
  • Direction de la sécurité civile
  • Firefighters
  • Police
• Ministry of Justice
• Ministry of Nature Conservation
  • National parks
• Ministry of Post Service and Telecommunications
  • Post service
• Ministry of Transport
  • Cable lying ships
  • Navigation police
  • Pilot boats

Historical flags

• Historical chronology
• Ancient Regime (until 1792)
  • Gaul
  • Alleged "banner of the Franks"
  • The Oriflamme (Middle Ages)
  • Hundred Years' War (Guerre de Cent Ans) (1337-1453)
  • Kingdom of France until 1792
  • Kingdom of France: Naval flags
  • Kingdom of France: Regimental flags
• 19th century (1792-1870)
  • French Revolution (1789-1799)
    • Regimental flags during the French Revolution
  • First Empire (May 1804-April 1814 & March-June 1815)
    • Regimental flags under the First Empire
  • Kingdom of France: 1815-1830 (Restauration)
  • Kingdom of France: 1830-1848 (Monarchie de Juillet)
  • Second Republic (1848-1852)
  • Second Empire (1852-1870)
  • La Commune de Paris (1870-1871)
• 20th century
  • Third Republic (1870-1940)
  • Fourth Republic (1947-1959)
  • Fifth Republic (1959-)
  • Registration flags for merchant ships (1814-1929)
  • Flag plate in Gazier's dictionary (1909)
  • Colonial flags
    • French colonial empire
  • Second World War
    • French state (État français), Vichy government (1940-1944)
    • Free France (France Libre) (1940-1944)
    • Free French Forces (Forces Françaises Libres)
    • Free French Naval Forces (Forces Navales Françaises Libres)
    • Anti-German Resistance (1940-1944)

Military flags

• Rank flags
  • Chiefs of staff
  • Marshal of France (Maréchal de France)
  • General Delegate for Ordnance (Délégué Général pour l'Armement)
  • Flag officers (Army and Air Force)
  • Naval rank flags
• Colours
  • Army colours
    • Foreign Legion (Légion étrangère)
    • Army colleges
    • Flags used in the Bastille Day parade
  • Navy colours
  • Historical colours
    • Kingdom of France: Regimental flags
    • French Revolution: Regimental flags
    • First Empire: Regimental flags
    • Second Republic: Army colours
• Pennants
  • Army unit pennants
  • Navy unit pennants
  • Historical pennants
  • Commanding officer's pennants, 1933
  • Commanding officer's pennants, Maginot Line, 1933
  • Army corps and service pennants, 1933
  • Commanding officer's pennants, before 1933
  • Army corps and service pennants, before 1933
  • Commanding officer's pennants, Kabylia (Algeria), 1857
  • Pennants of the African French Army, 1857
  • Pennants of the Algerian Tirailleurs, 1857
  • Commanding officer's pennants, Algeria, 1837
• Flags used during First World War (1914-1918)
• Ceremonial flags of Veterans' associations
• Aircraft markings
• Telegraph flag

Political flags

This list is not a comprehensive list of French political parties but only an index of those movements for which information on their flag is available.

• National political parties
  • Front de Gauche (Left Front)
    • Parti Communiste Français (PCF - French Communist Party)
    • Parti de Gauche (PG - Party of the Left)
    • Gauche Unitaire (GU - Unitarian Left)
    • Parti Communiste des Ouvriers de France (PCOF - Workers' Communist Party of France)
  • Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP - Union for a People's Movement)
    • Le Chêne (The Oak)
  • Mouvement National Républicain (MNR - Republican National Movement)
  • Parti Pirate (PP - Pirate Party)
• Autonomist, regionalist and separatist movements
  • Union du Peuple Alsacien - Elsässische Volksunion (Alsatian People Union - autonomist)
  • Forum National d'Alsace-Lorraine - National Forum Elsass-Lothringen (Alsace-Lorraine National Forum - separatist)
  • Breton political movements (index)
  • Mouvement Normand (Normand Movement - separatist)
  • Partit de la Nacion Occitana (Party of the Occitan Nation - separatist)
  • Savoy: Regionalist and independentist movements
• Ultranationalist movements
• Autonomous (extreme-leftist) movements
• Modern monarchist flags
• Peace flags
• Anarchism and the origin of the black flag
• Protest flags

Religious flags

• Ostensions limousines (Religious festival)
• Diocese of Arras
• Saint John's Order in Brittany (Ordre de Saint-Jean en Bretagne)
• Eucharistic Crusade (Croisade Eucharistique)
• Traditionalist Catholics
• Huguenot flag (16th century)
• Karma Ling Institute (Institut Karma Ling)

Corporate flags

• National Society for Sea Rescue (Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer, SNSM)
• House flags of shipping companies
• Ship name pennants
• Chambers of Commerce and Industry
• Voies navigables de France
• House flags of airlines
• Bureau Veritas
• Citroën

Associations' flags

• French Red Cross (Croix-Rouge française)
• Scouting organizations
• Fédération nationale des offices de tourisme et syndicats d'initiative (FNOTSI)
• Pieds-noirs
• Mouvement National des Chômeurs et des Précaires (MNCP)
• Union France-Valais
• Association du Souvenir de l'abbé Déret
• Association France Palestine Solidarité (AFPS)
• Fomoire Institute
• ADAS INRA, section of Orléans

Sports and recreation flags

• Yacht clubs
• Rowing clubs
• Flags on beaches
• Institut National des Sports et de l'Education Physique (INSEP)
• Tour de France
• Avalanche warning flags
• Other sports
• Groland (Fictitious principality)

Flags and arts

• Flag art
  • Les couleurs : sculpture artwork (Paris, summer 2002)
  • Voyages extraordinaires installation (Altkirch, 2010)
  • Flag installations by Julien Celdran
  • Flag paintings by Alain Balzac
• Flags in cartoons and caricatures
• Flags in literature
  • Flag of the Grande Gidouille (Alfred Jarry)
  • Ensigns described in the poem Canaris (Victor Hugo)
• Flags and music

Supranational flags

• European Union
• Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie

Bordering countries

• Andorra
• Belgium
• Germany
• Italy
• Luxembourg
• Monaco
• Spain
• Switzerland

External sites of interest

• Les emblèmes de France by Pascal Vagnat
• Vexillologie provençale by Dominique Cureau
• House flags of French shipping companies by Dominique Cureau
• Heraldry by Brian Timms, including:
  • The Civic Heraldry of France
  • A Glossary of terms used in French Civic Heraldry