The flag of France has a peculiarity since the end of 2018, which few were aware of, and which was an initiative of the president Emmanuel macron. The tricolor insignia has a darker blue. This was requested by the president, and was confirmed by a spokesman for his government this Monday.
The Gallic President “He chose for the tricolor flags that adorn the Elysee the navy blue that evokes the imaginary” of the heroes who fought during the French Revolution, as well as in the two world wars in the 20th century, according to the Elysee Palace.
The french flag had a lighter blue since 1976, by order of the then president, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing. The reason: that the blue coincided with that of the flag of the European Union. The director of operations of the Presidency, Arnaud Jolens, was the one who had the initiative for the change, 42 years later, as he admitted in the book “Elysée Confidentiel” (Elisha Confidential) by Eliot Blondet and Paul Larrouturou, which appeared last September. “He had changed the blue of the flag for aesthetic reasons during the rapprochement with Europe. The flag that all the presidents have carried since then was not the true French flag.”said the official.
At the same time, Macron added the cross of Lorraine to the logo of the presidency. It is a cross used by Charles De Gaulle’s Free France in the years of struggle against the occupation of Nazi Germany, between 1940 and 1944.
Macron officials estimated that navy blue was “more elegant” So what “Reconnected with a symbol of the French Revolution”. They had to clarify that the change in tonality does not imply filing a difference with the European Union. “There is no ‘blue war’; it is nonsense ”, they argued in this regard.
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