Flags of France - Regimental Flags

Regimental Flags

• The French soldiers started to use white crosses, during the Hundred Years' War, to distinguish themselves from the English soldiers wearing red crosses (battle of Formigny).

• A white-crossed regimental flag during the Ancien Régime (here, Régiment d'Auvergne).

• La Sarre Regiment (Régiment La Sarre)

• King's Regiment (Régiment du Roi)

• Queen's Regiment (Régiment de la Reine)

• General Lévis's Regiment Flag in North America. Now official flag of the city of Levis, Quebec

• The pre-revolutionary regimental flags inspired the flag of Quebec (here, the Compagnies Franches de la Marine).

• Regimental flag of the 1st Regiment of Grenadiers of the French Imperial Guard (1812).

• Current regimental flags of the 1st and 2nd Regiments of the French Foreign Legion