Tricouleur Collection

GARDES DU CORPS FEAST
Officers of the Gardes du Corps - the royal bodyguard - stage a feast where they toast the king, damn the revolution and trample the tricouleur. The people are not amused. Date: 1 October 1789

PLAYING SOLDIERS
A budding Bonaparte invites his troops to salute the tricouleur, waving his sword while a bugler blows Date: circa 1880

FRENCH IN DAHOMEY
The French tricouleur is borne proudly into the smoking city of Abomey, Dahomey - Honneur aux braves soldats ! Vive la France ! Date: 1892

Tricouleur Hotel Ville
The insurgents raise the tricouleur over the Hotel de Ville

Eros in Piccadilly Circus with flags on his head, WW1
The head of the Piccadilly Circus statue, Eros, decorated with the Union Jack and Tricouleur flags in the early weeks of the First World War. Date: 1914

Paris Barricade 1830
In the Paris streets, trees are felled to build a barricade to prevent troops advancing : the tricouleur waves proudly over the heads of the insurgents. Date: 1830

Lamartine and the Flags
Alphonse de Lamartine, poet and statesman, urges his countrymen to reject the red flag of revolution and adopt the tricouleur. symbol of liberty. Date: 25 February 1848

Cocarde Tricolore
The tricouleur is adopted as the emblem of the Revolution, and the cocarde tricouleure is sewn by women for their men to wear to express their revolutionary sentiments

Garde Du Corps Banquet
In the theatre at Versailles, with Louis and Marie present, officers of the garde du corps (royal bodyguard) hold a feast where they trample the revolutionary tricouleur

Federation Strasbourg
Strasbourg celebrates the Revolution in grand style : a big show is made of reconcil- -ing Catholics & Protestants, and the tricouleur flies from the cathedral

Gabon Trading Post
The French tricouleur flies proudly over a factory at Glass

French Salute Flag
French sailors salute the tricouleur as it is unfurled

Events / Africa / Dahomey
The French tricouleur is borne proudly into the smoking city of Abomey, Dahomey - Honneur aux braves soldats ! Vive la France ! Date: 1892

French in Mali
The French tricouleur is raised in Tombouctou, Mali : the action is widely criticised, even in France, as reckless provocation

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