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• National emblems
• Subnational flags
• Governmental flags
• Political flags
• Historical flags
• Education and research institutes' flags
• Military flags
• Religious flags
• Corporate flags
• Associations' flags
• Self-proclaimed entities
• Sports and recreation flags
• Flags in arts
• Supranational flags
• Bordering countries
• External sites of interest

National emblems

• France: main page
• Symbols of the Republic
• Laws and regulations on the national flag
• Half-staffing the national flag
• The national flag on monuments
• Naval flags
• Honour jacks
• Improper use of the French flag
• Erroneous and humorous use of the colours of the French flag
• Non-vexillological use of the national flag
  • The French Flag model in developmental biology
  • The AMGOT banknotes (1944)

Subnational flags

• Metropolitan [European] France (France métropolitaine)
  • Regions (Régions)
    • Clickable map of Regions (before 2014)
  • Collectivité européenne d'Alsace
  • 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)
    • Occitania (Occitània, Óucitanìo, Occitanie)
• Overseas France (France d'outre-mer)
  • Clipperton Island

Governmental flags

• President of the Republic
  • The "President's" Tricolor flag with a narrow white stripe
• Prime Minister
• Ministers
• Ministry of Agriculture and Fishery
  • Fishery inspection
• Ministry of Culture
  • Ships registered as historical monuments
• Ministry of Armed forces
  • Military flags
  • National Navy Museum
• Ministry of Ecological Transition
  • ANDRA (National agency for the management of radioactive waste)
• 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
  • Voies navigables de France
• Minister (or Junior Minister) for Overseas Departments and Territories
• (Ministry of the Navy)
  • Weather ships
• Other State-owned entities
  • Monnaie de Paris

Political flags

• National political parties
• Autonomist, regionalist and separatist movements
• Ultranationalist movements
• Ultra-Zionist movements
• Marxist-Leninist organizations
• Autonomous (extreme-leftist) movements
• Modern monarchist flags
• Peace flags
• Anarchism and the origin of the black flag
• Protest flags
• Rules for displaying flags (other than the national flag)

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)
  • Jeanne Hachette's alleged banner (1472)
  • Kingdom of France until 1792
  • Kingdom of France: Naval flags
  • Kingdom of France: Regimental flags
• 19th century (1792-1870)
  • French Revolution (1789-1799) and Consulate (1799-1804)
    • Colors of the Paris National Guard (1789-1792)
    • Regimental flags during the French Revolution
  • First Empire (May 1804-April 1814 & March-June 1815)
    • Regimental flags under the First Empire
  • Bourbon Restauration, 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)
  • Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
• 20th century
  • Third Republic (1870-1940)
  • Fourth Republic (1947-1959)
  • Fifth Republic (1959-)
  • Peace for Paris flags (2015)
  • 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)
  • Anniversary flags of the Normandy landings

Education and research institutes' flags

• Grandes Écoles
  • Agrocampus Ouest
  • AgroParisTech
• Universities
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Université Rennes I
  • Université de la Réunion (UR)
  • Université Savoie Mont Blanc
• Eco-Ecole program
• Research institutes
  • Ifremer (Institut français de recherches pour l'exploitation de la mer)

Military flags

• Rank flags
  • Chiefs of staff
  • Marshal of France (Maréchal de France)
  • General Delegate for Ordinance (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
  • Air Force colours
  • Inter-Army services' colours
  • Gendarmerie colours
  • Historical colours
    • Kingdom of France: Regimental flags
    • French Revolution: Regimental flags
    • First Empire: Regimental flags
    • Second Republic: Army colours
    • Second Empire: Regimental flags
    • Third Republic: Army colours
• Pennants
  • Army unit pennants
  • Navy unit pennants
  • Air Force unit pennants
  • Inter-Army services' pennants
  • Gendarmerie unit pennants
  • Commanding officer's 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 the First World War (1914-1918)
• Ceremonial flags of Veterans' associations
• Aircraft markings
• Telegraph flag

Religious flags

• Roman Catholic religion
  • Ostensions limousines festival
  • Diocese of Arras
  • Parish communities in Haut-Rhin
  • Schoenstatt France - Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement (Schoenstatt France - Mouvement apostolique Schonstatt)
  • Saint John's Order in Brittany (Ordre de Saint-Jean en Bretagne)
  • Eucharistic Crusade (Croisade Eucharistique)
  • Traditionalist Catholics
• Other religions
  • Huguenot flag (16th century)
  • Karma Ling Institute (Institut Karma Ling)

Corporate flags

• Shipping companies
  • House flags of shipping companies
  • Ship name pennants
• Business networks
  • Chambers of Commerce and Industry (CCI)
  • Chambers of Trade and Artisanry (CMA)
• State-owned companies
  • EDF
  • Rungis international market
• Other private companies
  • Airlines
  • Bureau Veritas
  • Citroën
  • Cognac houses
  • Eiffage
  • Thales
  • USHIP
  • Wine estates and designations of origin

Associations' flags

• Trade unions
• Bar councils
• Ceremonial flags of Veterans' associations
• First and mutual aid societies
  • French Red Cross (Croix-Rouge française)
  • Secours populaire français
  • Société des Œuvres de Mer
  • Société Humaine et des Naufrages de Boulogne-sur-Mer (SHN)
  • Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer (SNSM)
    • Société Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufragés (SCSN)
    • Société des Hospitaliers Sauveteurs Bretons (HSB)
  • Terre Fraternité
• Support associations
  • Ligue des droits de l'Homme
  • Feminist movements
  • Anti-homophobic associations
  • Syndicat de la Famille (formerly La Manif Pour Tous)
  • Pieds-noirs
  • Droits devant !!
  • Mouvement National des Chômeurs et des Précaires (MNCP)
  • Association France Palestine Solidarité (AFPS)
• Environmental associations
  • Association Gestes propres
• Scouting organizations
• Promotional associations
  • Fédération nationale des offices de tourisme et syndicats d'initiative (FNOTSI)
  • Tourism associations and labels
  • Ville Impériale network
  • Agence Savoie Mont-Blanc
• Local associations
  • Association du Souvenir de l'abbé Déret
  • ADAS INRA, section of Orléans
  • Jurisdiction (Jurade) of Saint-Émilion
  • Société d'émulation des Côtes-du-Nord
  • Union France-Valais

Self-proclaimed entities

• Communes libres
  • Montmartre (Paris): Communes libres and Republic of Montmartre
  • Commune libre du Bouffay (Nantes)
• Cultural associations
  • Fomoire Institute
• Micronations
  • Principality of Aigues-Mortes
  • Principality of Barnenez
  • Free Republic of Frioul
  • Free State of Glénan
  • Principality of Hélianthis
  • Principality of Laàs-en-Béarn
  • Republic of Maurins
  • Republic of Saugeais
• Fictious entities
  • Groland

Sports and recreation flags

• French National Olympic and Sports Committee (Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français - CNOSF)
• Watersports
  • Yachting
  • Rowing
  • Swimming
  • Warning flags on beaches
  • Sea resorts flags
• Other sports
• Tour de France
• Automobile Club de France
• Institut National des Sports et de l'Education Physique (INSEP)
• Avalanche warning flags

Flags and arts

• Flag art
  • Flags designed by Laurent Duthion
  • Bleu+Blanc+Rouge / Amarillo+Azul+Rojo (2012)
  • Les couleurs : sculpture (Paris, summer 2002)
  • Voyages extraordinaires (Altkirch, 2010)
  • Flag installations by Julien Celdran
  • Flag paintings by Alain Balzac
• Flags of art exhibitions
• 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

• Emblèmes des collectivités territoriales de France by Pascal Vagnat (✝ 2016, site no longer updated)
• Vexillologie provençale by Dominique Cureau
• House flags of French shipping companies by Dominique Cureau