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

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