Two shades of blue: France changes colour of national flag and it went unnoticed for 3 years
T's a extrade so diffused it went omitted 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 located in the back of Macron at information meetings and speeches now has a darker military blue instead 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 shows yellow stars on a blue background.
The extrade have been made at the flags located in the back of Macron at speeches from 2018 after wh...
