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Standard bearer Lieutenant Porte-Drapeau

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Lieutenant Standard bearer

A drapeau tricolore with vertical red, white and blue stripes was approved by the Constituent Assembly on 24 October 1790.
Simplified designs were used to illustrate how the revolution had broken with the past. The order was reversed to blue-white-red, the current design, by a resolution passed on 15 February 1794. Despite its official status, the tricolore was rarely used during the revolution.

Instead, the red flag of the Jacobin Club, symbolizing defiance and national emergency, was flown.

The tricolore was restored to prominence under Napoleon.