France Changes Flag Colour To Darker Navy Blue To Reflect A Heroic Past
Paris: It’s a extrade so diffused it went disregarded for nearly 3 years. But President Emmanuel Macron ordered a extrade to the color of the French flag to locate echoes of heroism in France’s past.
Keen-eyed observers can see that the French red-white-and-blue tricolour flying above the Elysee Palace and additionally positioned at the back of Macron at information meetings and speeches now has a darker military blue in place of the preceding brilliant blue.
The military blue color marks a go back to tradition — it have been then president Valery Giscard d’Estaing who switched the brighter blue in 1976 in order that it matched the color of the European flag, which presentations yellow stars on a blue background.
The extrade have been made at the flags positioned at the back of Macron at speeches from 2018 after which on the ones flying from the Elysee and different presidential homes from 2020, a presidential reliable, who requested now no longer to be named, instructed AFP on Monday.
The reliable stated that the military blue color “inspires the memory” of the heroes who fought withinside the French Revolution, the trenches of World War I and withinside the Resistance for the duration of World War II.
The extrade has in the end been observed after being discovered in a book “Elysee Confidential” posted this Autumn via way of means of reporters, Eliot Blondet and Paul Larrouturou.
They suggested that the initiative got here from the pinnacle of operations on the Elysee Arnaud Jolens, whom the reporters interviewed for his or her book. The extrade price a symbolic 5,000 euros.
“Giscard modified this blue for classy motives for the duration of integration with Europe, however the flag that each one the presidents took together with them ever because become now no longer the actual French flag,” Jolens is quoted as saying.
The Elysee reliable additionally mentioned that the flag at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris had continually had the military blue.
France on January 1 takes at the rotating EU presidency below Macron, a pro-European, whilst he faces re-election war in April.
