What does the design on the France Flag stand for?

Question

What does the design on the France Flag stand for?

Answer 1

Yes to the above, and the flag being known as the 'tri-colore', the colors were representative of the three-fold ideology of the revolution: liberty, equality and fraternity.

Answer 2

The blue and red were the ancient colors of Paris, to which the Commander of the Guard, Lafayette added the royal white at the time of the French Revolution.

All explanations of the alleged meaning of the colors were invented long after this.

Answer 3

The blue represents an officer named Saint Martin who helped poor people.

The white stripe stands for Virgin Mary and Joan of Arc. The red stripe represents the patron saint of Paris who protected all of France.

The name of the patron saint of Paris was Saint Denis.

Answer 4

Blue and red were the colours of Paris flag before 1789 revolution. White ? The color of the royal flag.

Paris wasn't the capital before 1789 revolution. And I'm french ;)

Answer 5

The colours were agreed to before the king tried to escape and was beheaded. Blue and red for Paris, where the revolution started, and white for the royal colour because there was still a king then.

In the early days of the revolution the three colours were first put together on a rosette. In July 1789, before the storming of the Bastille, a militia appears in Paris and wears a blue and red rosette, the colours of Paris. When the king goes to meet that new National Guard he wears a blue and red rosette to which Lafayette adds the white of royalty. Those colours become the unofficial colours of the new Republic. The tri-coloured flag becomes officially the French flag in February 1794.

Despite numerous attempts by royalists in later years to have the flag changed back to white and the use of the red flag  during the 1848 revolution by the Communards, the three coloured flag stayed and even the royalists gave up and rallied to it during WWI.