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A flag for all Franco-American people (U.S.)

image by Tomislav Todorovic, 17 December 2024

Development of the flag

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Development of the flag

A flag intended to represent all Franco-American people [1] combines the US and French symbols: the field is divided by a red ascending diagonal stripe into a blue portion above, charged with a white star, and a white portion below, changed with a blue fleur-de-lys, modelled after those from the flag of Quebec. The flag was allegedly created in early 1990s [2]: it is said to have been presented to Édith Butler, a Franco-Canadian (Acadian) singer-songwriter, by some Franco-American fans from the New York state and she first displayed it at her concert in Manchester, New Hampshire on 1992-06-24. However, more recent research [3] could not confirm that story, which seems to have first appeared in a discussion of the Wikimedia Commons users; actually, the
people who presented the flag to Ms Butler are said to have been from New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts, which suggests that the presented flag might actually have been the flag of New England Franco-Americans and that this flag may have been created as a proposal at Wikimedia Commons as late as in 2010 [4]. Regardless of that, the design did catch on somewhat, being offered for sale by many online shops and used as a Franco-American flag online [5], but sometimes also offline [3].

Image above derived from the SVG image from Wikimedia Commons

Sources:
[1] Franco-American flags at Wikipedia (in French): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Am%C3%A9ricains#Drapeaux_des_Franco-Am%C3%A9ricains

[2] Moderne Francos blog - Post on 2020-10-17: https://modernefrancos.com/what-you-didnt-know-about-the-franco-american-flag/

[3] Moderne Francos blog - Post on 2021-07-02: https://modernefrancos.com/making-a-statement-with-franco-american-flags/

[4] Proposed Franco-American flag at Wikimedia Commons - early version: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drapeau_Franco-Am%C3%A9ricain.jpg

[5] Portal of Franco-Americans at Wikipedia (in French): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portail:Franco-Am%C3%A9ricains

Tomislav Todorovic, 17 December 2024