Let me know in the comments if you'd like a video about the French Revolution! Also the map at 10:23 is a mistake, it shows German conquests in the 1940s when it should be Napoleon's conquests, my bad!
Hello! Yes, that would be awesome. Also, I just wanted to tell you that "Capetian" is pronounced "Capayssian" and the "Lys" is pronounced "Leesse" (yes, for once we say the "s" at the end of the word)
@@florianchabaud8548 That was my line LOL. + To the author, about the white in the Bourbon era: it is a color used to express the nobility and purity of the French crown.
Just two things to note : - The real flag of Occitanie doesn't have that text, it only has an Occitan cross in the middle of a red field, the one you showed is the logo of the regional council. - The flag of Guiana you showed is, again, the flag of the general council, which was used for 5 years until 2015. Their real flag is... Special, to say the least, and that's not hard to understand why people prefer to be associated with the council's flag.
Faux le drapeau guyanais n'est pas le drapeau du conseil général il était utilisé bien avant. Le président du conseil qui était un indépendantiste à juste décider de l'arborer à l'époque pour montrer ses envies d'indépendance vis à vis de la France.
Yes, it's just the regional council logo. They're all awful. For the real regional symbols look for the Coats of arms of french regions, which worn by the Gendarmerie officers. As far as I know only the absudity called the Region Grand Est doesn't have a common regional coat of arms. For Occitanie it's just the regular yellow occitan cross on a red field but with the catalan yellow stripes on the bottom right corner of the field (to include Roussillon).
Aussi le drapeau breton est très récent, il copie le style du drapeau états-unien Mais le blanc et le noir étaient bien utilisés par la Bretagne il me semble
Pseudo original mais pas trop bah enft c justement ce qu’il dit (il dit mot pour mot “contrairement a bcp de mots français, tu prononces le “s” dans “lys”
Blue and red: Paris (the people) White: the king The people surround the king because technically that's what happened in the French revolution Edit: at least that's what I learned in school
May i bring some corrections There are two important dates for the creation of France 496 : Clovis Ist, first King of the Franks who founded the Kingdom of the Franks (later France) and is regarded as the forefather of all French kings 843 : split of Charlemagne's empire, the western part evolving without interruption into modern France 987 is not the creation of France, it is just the apparition of a new ruling dynasty, the Capetian dynasty, elected to take the crown after the last Carolingian (descendant of Charlemagne) died without heir. But the state inherited by the capetians was the same than the one held by the Louis V (last carolingian), one year before... All royal houses who ruled France from 987 to 1848 are branches of the Capetian dynasties and are all related to Hugh Capet
10:51 The Russian colours are not related to the French ones. At least, there's no direct relation. The Russian flag was made centuries ago by, if I'm not mistaken, Peter the Great. He used the Dutch flag as a template and changed the order of the stripes. As it dates back to 1693 it can't be related to Le Tricolore that appeared a century later.
Hey, small mistake at 9:20 The 3 parts were Clergé (clergey), la Noblesse (the nobles) and finally the Tiers-Etat. literally the "tier-class state" The revolution was partly started by the Bourgeoisie, because they were still considered as "tiers-etat" (the Tiers-état is the random farmer, mason, butcher, baker etc...). Their place in society was being rich and working. Unlike the nobles who would work in very specific jobs (military, justice etc). Some from the Bourgeoisie could become nobles, but not all of them. Here you go for the clarification
Im French, and in class I learnt that blue and red were for the city of Paris and the white for the king. And that the colors of Paris surround the color of the king, exactly as the city of Paris has surrounded the royal power during the Revolution. Idk if it's the exact meaning of the flag, but I like this explanation !
I'm suprised you did not debunk the so-called "surrender flag" of the Bourbons in your video, alot of people are bringing it up in the comments. So I guess I'll try to clear up the confusion of why France had a pure white flag during the Bourbon Restoration: France during the Bourbon Restoration did not have a national flag in the modern sense. When the Bourbons were restored they brought back all the pre-revolutionary insignia, they did not create any new flags. France before the Revolution did not have a flag either. There was the Royal Standard (white field with Fleur-de-Lis) which was only raised in the presence of the Royal Famiily, a naval flag (which was blue with a white cross) and a state flag which was a purely white flag. When the Bourbons were restored, the pure white flag became the state flag once more, just as it had been before the Revolution. But it was not the "National flag" because there was no such thing.
England ran away from Dunkirk because their German Nazi Dynasty was more German than English (Edward VIII) The US did not join France in 1939 because they financed the nazi regime (Henry Ford, Prescott Bush) US = UK = coward
WTF ?! As a french history teacher, i'm really surprised you failed to explained one so much important part of this meaning ! The Frank kingdom put himself under the patronage of Holy Mary, the mother of the christ, and the king of France was calling himself "le Roi Très Chrétien" witch means "the REALLY christian king", so the blue and Fleur de Lys patern is not for some Saint of whatever. The blue represent Marie, and was a really precious and sacred colored because you had to use Lapis Lazulis, a precious jewel, to make the dye for the blue, so was only used for really important subject (the king and Marie) and the fleur de Lys is divided in 3 (an there is also 3 flower for same reason) to represent the Holy Trinity of the catholic faith (The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit). For the part after revolution, everything is correct, but you should correct this first part on the Blue and fleur de lys flag.
Being a bit nicer to the maker of these great videos would be a good thing. The part of this channel is called "Fun with flags", not "I am hereby displaying the formal facts from the Encyclopedia to you!"... Don't you think?
As a french, here it is what i have learned in school many years ago : Before the french revolution, our flag was only white with some "fleurs de lys" symbol of the monarchy. When the french revolution came, french people changed the flag by adding blue and red, like if the white colour was "trapped" by the two others. Blue represents the color of the Paris's river "La Seine" and Red represents the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. This is what i've learned ^^
2:23 for the prononciation, it's not «fleur de li», but «fleur de lyss» And for the orthographe (i don't know if this word is used in English) it's «Trois fleurS de lys» and not «3 fleur de lys».
The white color used by the Bourbons was actually really common among Catholic monarchies. It represented purity and the idea that the King ruled because he was anointed by God. At the same time that flag was flown, both Spain and Portugal were flying white flags with the monarch’s coat of arms emblazoned on them. As a result of the frequency of wars in Europe and the similarity between the flags at a distance, the King of Spain decided to change the naval flags of his kingdom so Spanish ships could be easily identified. This is how the Red and gold spanish fess flag came to be.
Cool video, I like this format :) At 1:45, since you're wondering, it's pronounced ca-pe-*see*-an. A lot of French words have this pronounciation of "ti": in the word "solution" for example (pronounced so-lu-see-on), just like English has a different pronounciation of this phonem as well for this word :)
Actually occitanie is now a region so they dont need to care that much about those rules. The original symbol is the cross you see on the left. Others regions do the same.
Occitanie! Just like many countries today, France is made of several older countries (Or piece of country). Many regions inside France use the colors of these late countries. Occitanie, where people spoke Occitan, is one of them. The symbol is called Occitan cross. You can find it on the Lag guitars :) Occitan is a language that looks like a mix between Spanish, French, Italian and Catalan. A lot of stories in this region. :)
11:18 The flag of Occitanie is the administrative one, since they merged Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées in 2016. But Occitanie exists for century and the flag does not have text.
Why the blue for the king ? Blue was believed to be a magical protective colour, and so used to protect boys (mostly heirs, land heirs, and consequently royal heirs) from a magical threat (spiritual and/or demonic threat after Christianism occured). One says that to balance, pink has been chosen for girls, as a symbol of delicacy and softness.
gros travail ! vidéo trés complete, surtout concernant l'articulation entre l'époque royale, et la révolution ! bravo ! hard work video, especialy between royal and revolution period.
Such a phenomenal video. Underrated channel. Really, we should thank the French. Right up until the end, they fought England, and especially fought the Nazis. Dumb of people to say otherwise. Excellent people, the French. Round of applause for them.
I heard somewhere the white flag symbolizes surrender since French enemies raise this flag to announce their belonging to the French kingdom/empire cause it was the French flag for a while
It's absolutely false, it's only to make fun of french. Someone in comments has made a great explanation of the use of the pure white flag during the Bourbon Restoration, I'm copy/pasting it here so you can read it. "France during the Bourbon Restoration did not have a national flag in the modern sense. When the Bourbons were restored they brought back all the pre-revolutionary insignia, they did not create any new flags. France before the Revolution did not have a flag either. There was the Royal Standard (white field with Fleur-de-Lis) which was only raised in the presence of the Royal Famiily, a naval flag (which was blue with a white cross) and a state flag which was a purely white flag. When the Bourbons were restored, the pure white flag became the state flag once more, just as it had been before the Revolution. But it was not the "National flag" because there was no such thing."
@@scottbass3 I wasn't making joke about France, why would I ? I'm French like u. I was just talking about the French enemies that surrendered after fought against France : they show the winners flag to say they surrender, so they show French flag (white flag) to say France won against them. Btw, thx for the explaination.
A small detail, at 11:15 the flag of the Occitania region is a "fusion" of the Occitan flag and the Catalan flag (Pyrénées-Orientales). They had to add texts to clarify that French Catalans are not Occitan
Very detailed vidéo, and very nicely explained, and even as a french who loves history I learned things, well very nice video And it's always a pleasure to hear from a non-french that the surrender joke isn't justified
@@DaDa-ui3sw L'état français a séparé Nantes de la Bretagne... Mais Nantes est en Bretagne depuis la création de la France.. ça fait même pas un siècle que Nantes a été détaché de la Bretagne
The 3 colours for the 3 estate is not the most common commun interpretation for the French flag but , if it is true , the blue should be the nobles because in french we have the expression "le sang bleu" (the blue blood) which refers to the noble
Great video as always, great channel! 😉 A small correction for this one as the Île de France is not represented with the right flag as this one with the Fleurs de Lys is an old one but with this one fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3AR%C3%A9gion_%C3%8Ele-de-France_%28logo%29.svg or simplified on the license plates with the red star and Île de France written in small underneath. Another small issue is the colours used with the flags that vary in the same videos from time to time and sometimes wrongfully used like with the Dutch flag for example, as the blue (and the red as well) is way darker, making it resemble to the french one in your video. Don't hesitate to "pick" the colours on an actual flag or to go on a site to to get the colour codes. 😉 But still, go on with these great videos! Thanks
Jacques-Louis David is one of the best painters ever and was a fierce revolutionary. He ended up painting the Napoleon crossing the Alps and died in exile during the Bourbon restoration. So, not just a man.
The flag of Occitanie is bot this one. This is the one the regional administration made. The original flag is a cathare cross on a red flag. The lines we see on the right on the "false" flag are the lines of official flag of Catalunya (which is also in France) but the two regions have been regrouped for administration issues in 2014.
Another interpretation is that during the French revolution, the colors blue, white, red were especially popular among the progessive circles, because it was the colors of the American flag. Of course, no Frenchman would admit that, but the coincidence is striking.
Every French kid knows the story of the flag but nonetheless I wanted to watch the video to see if the work was done well and I have to congratulate you Really great job !
en primaire peut être mais en théorie si t'as fait le colège tu connais le topo . Après c'est sur y'en à qui sont pas des flêches au colège et qui n'en n'ont rien à battre
@@shaezbreizh86 Bizzarement j'ai plus de souvenir de l’apprentissage de l'histoire de France à l'école comparé au collège où c'était surtout la seconde guerre. Et de nos jours, je suis pas sûr que la majorité des gamins connaissent l'histoire des origines du drapeau, hélas.
Nice video ! However, the fleur de lys is not a lily (lys de jardin in french) as anyone could think but rather an iris. It is a common misconseption coming from the fact that the first name of the flower was "Fleur de Louis" (Louis being a frequent name among french kings). In old french it was written "Fleur de Loys" (becoming Lys)
11:19 You talk here about Occitanie's flag. But you have to differentiate : -historical french regions flags (every flag you show at 11:17 expect the "occitanie" flag) -French regions logos (occitanie "flag" is a part of it and this is why there is text on this "flag" ! ^^) -French regions emblems (écussons) Wiki article on it : fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armorial_des_r%C3%A9gions_de_France (only in french) Sometimes the three are the same. PS: As always, when it's about France, it's complicated x)
Nope, nope, the Rhone-Alps' flag is not historic at all. It's just a mix of the flags of the Forez (including Lyon), of the Dauphiné, of Forcalquier (a lot like the Provence one), and of Savoy.
Hi I m a French student and in France we just learn that the blue et the red it s the Paris color and the white it s the king s color. And that the population oversees the king. Ur video is very interesting bc before I don t knew French color flag history.
Very good video which was very instructutive (seriously I'm french and you made me learn some things about our own flag's origins ^^) ! But at 11:16 you made a little mistake: it's not the a real flag ! This it's the Regional Council flag of the Occitanie Region (the fusion of the old regions of Midi-Pyrénées and Languedoc-Roussillon). The historical flag for the regions it's this: www.comprarbanderas.es/images/banderas/400/4264-occitania_400px.jpg But except this little error the rest is right. So I hope I was useful and understandable (I'm not the best in english), and greetings from a gascon guy !
He also made a mistake with the flag of Guiana : The flag of Guiana he showed is the flag of the general council, which was used for 5 years until 2015. Their real flag is... Special, to say the least, and that's not hard to understand why people prefer to be associated with the council's flag.
11:15 this is just the logo for the new south-west region that is not even 5 years old ! So it doesn't really count as a flag... every region has its logo, which we use for cars "identity board" idk the translation...
Very good video. Like the red one of England, royal French flags used to include a cross sometimes, blue or white, as you can see on Quebec's flag. Since crusades times.
You have to pronounce the "s" at the and of " fleur de lys" :) In France, history teacher says that, french flag means : Blue : royalty White : Freedom Red : brotherhood Thank you for this beautiful video of our country!!!
Speaking of Occitania, you took the new flag. It's made of the fusion of tree old flags: the flag of Midi-Pyrénée, the flag of Languedoc and the flag of Roussillon. The two regions merged with the regions reform in 2015 where France went from 19 to 13 regions. The flag also represent the unification of Occitania local language: Occitan. it's still taught in school and the metro stops of Toulouse (capital of Occitania) are stated in French and Occitan. Source : fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapeau_de_l%27Occitanie I live in Toulouse =)
The blue and red did represent Paris and by extention the people/revolution, and white the king. So puting them together in 1790 reprensented the will to unite the ideas of the French Revolution and the monarchy. You all know Bastille Day on the 14th of July (1789) but originally the french "fête nationale" celebrated an other 14th of July (1790): "la fête de la fédération" which celebrated the renewed faith in the monarchy for the people with the promise of the king to accept some ideas of the Revolution. So no surprise that the tricolore flag was created that same year 1790.
That was interesting! I was told that the blue was the color of the people, white that of the king and red the blood of those who died during the revolution, the position of the colors meaning that the king is surrounded. But that's probably a tale for all the revolutionaries out there (here here) Also, kah-peh-sea-en (the T turns into an S sound) Good job on the video!
Very good video man ! However I noted a small mistake : houses of Valois and Bourbon are not new dynasties that ruled France after the Capetians, they are part of the capetian dynasty. Every king of these houses was a direct descendant of Hugh Capet, who got elected king of the Franks ni 987, but sometimes by a different way. In France, we say that three dynasties ruled the country : the Merovingians (house of Clovis, that ruled from the late 5th century to the mid 8th century), the Carolingians (houses of Charlemagne, until 987) and then the Capetians from 987 to 1848 with a small break during the revolution and with Napoleon. Inside this last dynasty, we find different branches with the direct Capetians, the house of Valois, the house of Valois-Orléans, the house of Valois-Angoulême, the house of Bourbon....
Great video! Just as small mistakes about regional flags. With the exception of Bretagne / Brittany, the flags you showed aren't often used in real life. They're sort of coats of arms even though they're called flags. Regions will traditionally use their logos which all contain text, these logos would be the real flags of regions. So the Occitanie/a flag you showed is actually their logo ^^ they've got a coat of arms too.
@@General.Knowledge That's awesome ! I really like the march called Trois Jeunes Tambours (3 young drums), but you've probably got it already. I wish you good luck for that French Revolution video !
@@General.Knowledge then when yu show up the flag of bretagne try to use our celtic music ;P I mean, we're one of the rare region of France to hardly preserv our celtic culture it would have been ez to find some musique bretonne like 3 martolod or whatever xD
The first coat of arms of the Capetians was actually a bunch of fleurs de lys on a blue field, hence the first dynastic banner being a blue banner with a lot of fleurs de lys. The banner changed after the coat of arms changed to be 3 fleurs de lys on a blue field. Also, there’s no difference between the coats of arms of the Houses of Capet, Valois, and Bourbon WHILE they ruled France respectively. As the Valois and Bourbons were branches of the Capetians, they took the same coat of arms when they became the seniormost branch of the family, which was always when they took the throne. Before that, their coats of arms had marks of difference to distinguish them from their parent house. The only french dynasty to break this custom was the House of Orleans during the July Monarchy as there were still members of the French Bourbon dynasty that were still alive in addition to being a symbolic break from the Restoration period.
You should visit an other city, Paris is almost good for tourist, when you only want to see big monuments, but behind that thats a bad city and you have to beware all the stealers
I heard about the idea of Paris' colors around king's color, but another theory is : Lafayette was a part of the American Revolution. His soldiers wore a blue, white, red cocarde : the American one. The French Tricolore could be inspired by the American one and I think it's beautiful.
In early medieval times, blue was the most expensive color to make. This is why many royal flags in europe have a bit of blue in it. (There is aan interesting video about it on the channel vsauce)Btw one of those flags look a lot like the flag of Brussels , wonder what the connection is
Nice video! As mentionned in other comments the occitanian flag doesn't have words in it, this is an administrative flag. Great work of research, and you could have added that in fact the white flag for surrender comes from france ennemis that used it to surrender, because it was french monarchy colour ;)
@@TheTattieShaw ohoo ok I thought you were spanish Well let me tell you that he is in fact Portuguese and not Spanish Why His pronounciation of some of the names of portuguese places and names etc. And the way he almost always brings up portugal in other topics the way only a portuguese would All of that only a portuguese would maybe able to grasp it
1) also lumo's comment prevails : blue and red is Paris and the white is the king 2) the three parts are vertical because the dutch had their flag before
Is there a source for the claim that the russian flag is inspired by the french? To my knowledge, the slavic countries chose red-white-blue as the colors for their pan-movement and inspired by the dutch flag and are therefore used by them (just look at the flags of Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia).
You are correct, even the French flag is inspired by the Dutch flag because it was a revolutionary flag (the rise against Spain, 1568 I believe), so several hundreds of years older.
Let me know in the comments if you'd like a video about the French Revolution!
Also the map at 10:23 is a mistake, it shows German conquests in the 1940s when it should be Napoleon's conquests, my bad!
Yes please
Wait not mentioning the dutch tri-colour flag?
Yo la France je suis français
Hello!
Yes, that would be awesome.
Also, I just wanted to tell you that "Capetian" is pronounced "Capayssian" and the "Lys" is pronounced "Leesse" (yes, for once we say the "s" at the end of the word)
@@florianchabaud8548 That was my line LOL. + To the author, about the white in the Bourbon era: it is a color used to express the nobility and purity of the French crown.
Just two things to note :
- The real flag of Occitanie doesn't have that text, it only has an Occitan cross in the middle of a red field, the one you showed is the logo of the regional council.
- The flag of Guiana you showed is, again, the flag of the general council, which was used for 5 years until 2015. Their real flag is... Special, to say the least, and that's not hard to understand why people prefer to be associated with the council's flag.
Faux le drapeau guyanais n'est pas le drapeau du conseil général il était utilisé bien avant. Le président du conseil qui était un indépendantiste à juste décider de l'arborer à l'époque pour montrer ses envies d'indépendance vis à vis de la France.
@@thomasmaquaire2975 Ah d'accord :)
Yes, it's just the regional council logo. They're all awful.
For the real regional symbols look for the Coats of arms of french regions, which worn by the Gendarmerie officers. As far as I know only the absudity called the Region Grand Est doesn't have a common regional coat of arms. For Occitanie it's just the regular yellow occitan cross on a red field but with the catalan yellow stripes on the bottom right corner of the field (to include Roussillon).
Aussi le drapeau breton est très récent, il copie le style du drapeau états-unien
Mais le blanc et le noir étaient bien utilisés par la Bretagne il me semble
Unlike most words in French, you actually pronounce the 's' in 'lys'
Tu dis nimp tlm prononce le "s" dans "lys"...
Pseudo original mais pas trop bah enft c justement ce qu’il dit (il dit mot pour mot “contrairement a bcp de mots français, tu prononces le “s” dans “lys”
Kristopher Florio because all french people pronounce the "s" of "lys". This is the right prononciation
@@_trazz_7534 Wow ptn j'me sens gogole j'avais pas compris lol
Pseudo original mais pas trop tkt sa m’arrive a moi aussi😂
Blue and red: Paris (the people)
White: the king
The people surround the king because technically that's what happened in the French revolution
Edit: at least that's what I learned in school
Thanks
Damit i wanted to Type that
And 'cause that was mostly a Parisian revolution
Yeah, that’s the version I always heard (as a French guys).
Jujux333 It wasn’t at all lmao
I love the French Antarctic Lands flag, it looks kinda futuristic with the letters mixed together and the stars
Me too ^^
Looks like the Trade Federation logo from Star Wars.
@@AndrewVasirov and some Faze Clan vibes as well
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Rpz les français qui regardent la vidéo
J'apprends français, quoi est Rpz?
@@mkra7769 ça veut dire "représente" c'est une expression française
@@lecreeper1367 Merci
@@lecreeper1367 C'est une expression que tu utilises, mais non, c'est loin d'être une expression de la vie courante.
@@lecreeper1367 Alors c'est plus une abréviation qu'une expression mais ouais ça veut bien dire "représente" bravo
May i bring some corrections
There are two important dates for the creation of France
496 : Clovis Ist, first King of the Franks who founded the Kingdom of the Franks (later France) and is regarded as the forefather of all French kings
843 : split of Charlemagne's empire, the western part evolving without interruption into modern France
987 is not the creation of France, it is just the apparition of a new ruling dynasty, the Capetian dynasty, elected to take the crown after the last Carolingian (descendant of Charlemagne) died without heir. But the state inherited by the capetians was the same than the one held by the Louis V (last carolingian), one year before...
All royal houses who ruled France from 987 to 1848 are branches of the Capetian dynasties and are all related to Hugh Capet
10:02 *OMG* YOU ARE THE *FIRST* ENGLISH GUY TO CORRECTLY PRONOUNCE THE *"R"* !!! THANK YOU
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The Russian colours are not related to the French ones. At least, there's no direct relation. The Russian flag was made centuries ago by, if I'm not mistaken, Peter the Great. He used the Dutch flag as a template and changed the order of the stripes. As it dates back to 1693 it can't be related to Le Tricolore that appeared a century later.
Nice seeing someone noticing this too:)
The French also used the Dutch flag, because the Dutch already had a succesful revolution and republic.
@@caferustwat not at all, thats about the symbolic of the king between the people
@@caferustwat no
@@caferustwat no
Hey, small mistake at 9:20
The 3 parts were Clergé (clergey), la Noblesse (the nobles) and finally the Tiers-Etat. literally the "tier-class state"
The revolution was partly started by the Bourgeoisie, because they were still considered as "tiers-etat" (the Tiers-état is the random farmer, mason, butcher, baker etc...). Their place in society was being rich and working. Unlike the nobles who would work in very specific jobs (military, justice etc). Some from the Bourgeoisie could become nobles, but not all of them. Here you go for the clarification
Im French, and in class I learnt that blue and red were for the city of Paris and the white for the king. And that the colors of Paris surround the color of the king, exactly as the city of Paris has surrounded the royal power during the Revolution.
Idk if it's the exact meaning of the flag, but I like this explanation !
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Huh...
I'm suprised you did not debunk the so-called "surrender flag" of the Bourbons in your video, alot of people are bringing it up in the comments. So I guess I'll try to clear up the confusion of why France had a pure white flag during the Bourbon Restoration:
France during the Bourbon Restoration did not have a national flag in the modern sense. When the Bourbons were restored they brought back all the pre-revolutionary insignia, they did not create any new flags.
France before the Revolution did not have a flag either. There was the Royal Standard (white field with Fleur-de-Lis) which was only raised in the presence of the Royal Famiily, a naval flag (which was blue with a white cross) and a state flag which was a purely white flag.
When the Bourbons were restored, the pure white flag became the state flag once more, just as it had been before the Revolution. But it was not the "National flag" because there was no such thing.
England ran away from Dunkirk because their German Nazi Dynasty was more German than English (Edward VIII)
The US did not join France in 1939 because they financed the nazi regime (Henry Ford, Prescott Bush)
US = UK = coward
Do the French Revolution next! your videos are really informative and well done
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WTF ?! As a french history teacher, i'm really surprised you failed to explained one so much important part of this meaning ! The Frank kingdom put himself under the patronage of Holy Mary, the mother of the christ, and the king of France was calling himself "le Roi Très Chrétien" witch means "the REALLY christian king", so the blue and Fleur de Lys patern is not for some Saint of whatever. The blue represent Marie, and was a really precious and sacred colored because you had to use Lapis Lazulis, a precious jewel, to make the dye for the blue, so was only used for really important subject (the king and Marie) and the fleur de Lys is divided in 3 (an there is also 3 flower for same reason) to represent the Holy Trinity of the catholic faith (The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit). For the part after revolution, everything is correct, but you should correct this first part on the Blue and fleur de lys flag.
Sorry if my english is a bit strange. As said, i'm french.
Being a bit nicer to the maker of these great videos would be a good thing.
The part of this channel is called "Fun with flags", not "I am hereby displaying the formal facts from the Encyclopedia to you!"... Don't you think?
@@laurentloop5573 he's a teacher remember ;)
2:21 ça se prononce pas comme ça fleur de lys :p
je laisse un petit like depuis la France (et il est bleu aussi! :D)
punkerkiller bizarrement, j’ai remarqué qu’en anglais ils prononcent pas le s
English : [li]
Français : [lis]
Et voilà
As a french, here it is what i have learned in school many years ago : Before the french revolution, our flag was only white with some "fleurs de lys" symbol of the monarchy. When the french revolution came, french people changed the flag by adding blue and red, like if the white colour was "trapped" by the two others. Blue represents the color of the Paris's river "La Seine" and Red represents the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. This is what i've learned ^^
"A man called...Jacques-Louis David..."
Ever seen the (older) Dutch flag? *Hilbert starts the Wilhelmus*
Brandon Wing *Anglo-Saxon
That video was great
Just one thing, Occitanie's flag does'nt have any text, what you showed is the Regional council one haha
2:23 for the prononciation, it's not «fleur de li», but «fleur de lyss»
And for the orthographe (i don't know if this word is used in English) it's «Trois fleurS de lys» and not «3 fleur de lys».
Étrange d'avoir une photo de profil de Clovis et de s'appeler Philippe Auguste!
@@gauthierjaulin5551 je ne peux pas changer de nom, je dois attendre les 90 jours.
@@bork6856 OK XD
Thank you, Sir, this was one of your best flag videos... How someone can cram so many facts and explanations into a 12 minute video I'll never know!
The white color used by the Bourbons was actually really common among Catholic monarchies. It represented purity and the idea that the King ruled because he was anointed by God. At the same time that flag was flown, both Spain and Portugal were flying white flags with the monarch’s coat of arms emblazoned on them. As a result of the frequency of wars in Europe and the similarity between the flags at a distance, the King of Spain decided to change the naval flags of his kingdom so Spanish ships could be easily identified. This is how the Red and gold spanish fess flag came to be.
Cool video, I like this format :) At 1:45, since you're wondering, it's pronounced ca-pe-*see*-an.
A lot of French words have this pronounciation of "ti": in the word "solution" for example (pronounced so-lu-see-on), just like English has a different pronounciation of this phonem as well for this word :)
Actually occitanie is now a region so they dont need to care that much about those rules. The original symbol is the cross you see on the left. Others regions do the same.
The 'Ohn ohn ohn, baguette' hurt me physically (coming from France here) and I can see u put 'La Marsailles' in the background lol
LA MARSAILLES. *oof*
@@isaie7144 Yep that's what I said
@@munichmapper3245 La Marseillaise can be better imo
@@isaie7144 issou
@@isaie7144 Je suis pas newfag quaie
I LOVE FRANCE!!!!
Nice vid ^^ And yes! Do the French Revolution. It's one of the most interesting events in World history, my opinion at least.
Well join the discord and suggest it there
Occitanie!
Just like many countries today, France is made of several older countries (Or piece of country).
Many regions inside France use the colors of these late countries. Occitanie, where people spoke Occitan, is one of them.
The symbol is called Occitan cross. You can find it on the Lag guitars :)
Occitan is a language that looks like a mix between Spanish, French, Italian and Catalan.
A lot of stories in this region. :)
11:18 The flag of Occitanie is the administrative one, since they merged Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées in 2016. But Occitanie exists for century and the flag does not have text.
Why the blue for the king ?
Blue was believed to be a magical protective colour, and so used to protect boys (mostly heirs, land heirs, and consequently royal heirs) from a magical threat (spiritual and/or demonic threat after Christianism occured).
One says that to balance, pink has been chosen for girls, as a symbol of delicacy and softness.
Excellent. Merci pour cette fière vidéo 🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵
Only 119k subs? You deserve WAY more than that :)
Yeah I joined at just over 10k you should join his discord
discord.gg/H8HDWGD
TheTattieShaw Thanks, mate. Where u from btw?
@@phantom4577 Scotland you
I learn a lot of things about the flags of my country. Thank you for this video 😊
C'est dingue j'en ai appris plus dans cette vidéo qu'en cours c'est génial 👍👍👍❤️❤️
Great video! Keep up the good work!
From a French/European person, thank you.
gros travail !
vidéo trés complete, surtout concernant l'articulation entre l'époque royale, et la révolution !
bravo !
hard work video, especialy between royal and revolution period.
Here before the surrender jokes shitstorm
no one laughs while doing "ohn ohn ohn" in France
I used to think that too..... Until I caught myself doing some version of it........
Great video!! You are visually, verbally and musically engaging! Thank you!!
Such a phenomenal video.
Underrated channel.
Really, we should thank the French.
Right up until the end, they fought
England, and especially fought the
Nazis.
Dumb of people to say otherwise.
Excellent people, the French.
Round of applause for them.
I heard somewhere the white flag symbolizes surrender since French enemies raise this flag to announce their belonging to the French kingdom/empire cause it was the French flag for a while
It's absolutely false, it's only to make fun of french. Someone in comments has made a great explanation of the use of the pure white flag during the Bourbon Restoration, I'm copy/pasting it here so you can read it.
"France during the Bourbon Restoration did not have a national flag in the modern sense. When the Bourbons were restored they brought back all the pre-revolutionary insignia, they did not create any new flags.
France before the Revolution did not have a flag either. There was the Royal Standard (white field with Fleur-de-Lis) which was only raised in the presence of the Royal Famiily, a naval flag (which was blue with a white cross) and a state flag which was a purely white flag.
When the Bourbons were restored, the pure white flag became the state flag once more, just as it had been before the Revolution. But it was not the "National flag" because there was no such thing."
@@scottbass3 I wasn't making joke about France, why would I ? I'm French like u. I was just talking about the French enemies that surrendered after fought against France : they show the winners flag to say they surrender, so they show French flag (white flag) to say France won against them. Btw, thx for the explaination.
A small detail, at 11:15 the flag of the Occitania region is a "fusion" of the Occitan flag and the Catalan flag (Pyrénées-Orientales). They had to add texts to clarify that French Catalans are not Occitan
Great video ! Love from France !
Really interesting video
( as usual 👍)! A video about the french revolution would be great!
Join the discord and suggest it there
Really cool video ! Indeed; France is a great nation and one of the greatest military force in History
Very detailed vidéo, and very nicely explained, and even as a french who loves history I learned things, well very nice video
And it's always a pleasure to hear from a non-french that the surrender joke isn't justified
nice video, pretty accurate from a french History geek perspective ;). i will not comment the pronunciation hon hon hon
cheers from Brittany, france!
@@Gabbento ah ah tu auras noté l'identité première ;p
@@Gabbento Nantes n'est pas bretonne!!!!!
@@DaDa-ui3sw L'état français a séparé Nantes de la Bretagne... Mais Nantes est en Bretagne depuis la création de la France.. ça fait même pas un siècle que Nantes a été détaché de la Bretagne
5:04
Actually wrong, flag of France had one ⚜ "fleur de lys" ⚜ in each corner and a roundy coat of arm in the middle.
The 3 colours for the 3 estate is not the most common commun interpretation for the French flag but , if it is true , the blue should be the nobles because in french we have the expression "le sang bleu" (the blue blood) which refers to the noble
4:57 how people keep living this joke... i mean this joke really over-use
Over-used is a euphemisms. Ever seen a discussion about France without those jokes?
And this joke ain't even accurate, excepting for WW2
'Cause they are dumb or jalous for all the french victories
@@destinee2052 France don't surrendered during WW2
@@gauthierjaulin5551 peut-être pas, mais en tout cas, on n'a pas gagné
Thanks for this video. Love from France ❤️
Great video as always, great channel! 😉
A small correction for this one as the Île de France is not represented with the right flag as this one with the Fleurs de Lys is an old one but with this one
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3AR%C3%A9gion_%C3%8Ele-de-France_%28logo%29.svg
or simplified on the license plates with the red star and Île de France written in small underneath.
Another small issue is the colours used with the flags that vary in the same videos from time to time and sometimes wrongfully used like with the Dutch flag for example, as the blue (and the red as well) is way darker, making it resemble to the french one in your video.
Don't hesitate to "pick" the colours on an actual flag or to go on a site to to get the colour codes. 😉
But still, go on with these great videos!
Thanks
For everyone watching, Gilbert du Motiers was the Marquis de Lafayette. Yes, my fellow Americans, THAT Marquis de Lafayette
I forgot one thing: In 1790, the order of the stripes was actually reversed. It used to be Red White Blue until it was changed for aesthetic reasons.
Very interesting ! Super vidéo :D
Jacques-Louis David is one of the best painters ever and was a fierce revolutionary. He ended up painting the Napoleon crossing the Alps and died in exile during the Bourbon restoration. So, not just a man.
The flag of Occitanie is bot this one. This is the one the regional administration made. The original flag is a cathare cross on a red flag. The lines we see on the right on the "false" flag are the lines of official flag of Catalunya (which is also in France) but the two regions have been regrouped for administration issues in 2014.
Another interpretation is that during the French revolution, the colors blue, white, red were especially popular among the progessive circles, because it was the colors of the American flag. Of course, no Frenchman would admit that, but the coincidence is striking.
Yes French Revolution video
Pretty nice vidéo and you actually learned a lot of my own flag ! Bien joué ;)
Every French kid knows the story of the flag but nonetheless I wanted to watch the video to see if the work was done well and I have to congratulate you
Really great job !
I disagree, very few kids knows our flag history...saddly
en primaire peut être mais en théorie si t'as fait le colège tu connais le topo .
Après c'est sur y'en à qui sont pas des flêches au colège et qui n'en n'ont rien à battre
@@shaezbreizh86 Bizzarement j'ai plus de souvenir de l’apprentissage de l'histoire de France à l'école comparé au collège où c'était surtout la seconde guerre. Et de nos jours, je suis pas sûr que la majorité des gamins connaissent l'histoire des origines du drapeau, hélas.
Blue: lets
White: copy
Red: the Dutch
Dutch :
Lets copy spain
Do former (and current) French territories as the next poll. For example: Quebec, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Corsica
Cosica is in "France Metropolitaine"
Is not considered colonie
@@kefgeru_de_kalos nos territoire outre mer ne sont pas des colonie
@@thepny_chasseur_de_tricera5361 je sais pas dire outre mer en anglais
Et puis d'origine si mais ce n'est plus le cas
Nice video !
However, the fleur de lys is not a lily (lys de jardin in french) as anyone could think but rather an iris. It is a common misconseption coming from the fact that the first name of the flower was "Fleur de Louis" (Louis being a frequent name among french kings). In old french it was written "Fleur de Loys" (becoming Lys)
11:19 You talk here about Occitanie's flag.
But you have to differentiate :
-historical french regions flags (every flag you show at 11:17 expect the "occitanie" flag)
-French regions logos (occitanie "flag" is a part of it and this is why there is text on this "flag" ! ^^)
-French regions emblems (écussons)
Wiki article on it : fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armorial_des_r%C3%A9gions_de_France (only in french)
Sometimes the three are the same.
PS: As always, when it's about France, it's complicated x)
Nope, nope, the Rhone-Alps' flag is not historic at all. It's just a mix of the flags of the Forez (including Lyon), of the Dauphiné, of Forcalquier (a lot like the Provence one), and of Savoy.
Hi I m a French student and in France we just learn that the blue et the red it s the Paris color and the white it s the king s color. And that the population oversees the king. Ur video is very interesting bc before I don t knew French color flag history.
Very good video which was very instructutive (seriously I'm french and you made me learn some things about our own flag's origins ^^) !
But at 11:16 you made a little mistake: it's not the a real flag ! This it's the Regional Council flag of the Occitanie Region (the fusion of the old regions of Midi-Pyrénées and Languedoc-Roussillon). The historical flag for the regions it's this: www.comprarbanderas.es/images/banderas/400/4264-occitania_400px.jpg
But except this little error the rest is right. So I hope I was useful and understandable (I'm not the best in english), and greetings from a gascon guy !
He also made a mistake with the flag of Guiana : The flag of Guiana he showed is the flag of the general council, which was used for 5 years until 2015. Their real flag is... Special, to say the least, and that's not hard to understand why people prefer to be associated with the council's flag.
Merci, parce-que j'ai eu très mal à ce moment de la vidéo ^^
Thank you for this amazing video!!
11:15 this is just the logo for the new south-west region that is not even 5 years old ! So it doesn't really count as a flag... every region has its logo, which we use for cars "identity board" idk the translation...
Very good video. Like the red one of England, royal French flags used to include a cross sometimes, blue or white, as you can see on Quebec's flag. Since crusades times.
You have to pronounce the "s" at the and of " fleur de lys" :)
In France, history teacher says that, french flag means :
Blue : royalty
White : Freedom
Red : brotherhood
Thank you for this beautiful video of our country!!!
5:08 the Bourbon flag after the Bourbon restoration shows how Bourbons during the French Revolution surrendered to the Revolutionaries.
Speaking of Occitania, you took the new flag. It's made of the fusion of tree old flags: the flag of Midi-Pyrénée, the flag of Languedoc and the flag of Roussillon. The two regions merged with the regions reform in 2015 where France went from 19 to 13 regions. The flag also represent the unification of Occitania local language: Occitan. it's still taught in school and the metro stops of Toulouse (capital of Occitania) are stated in French and Occitan.
Source : fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapeau_de_l%27Occitanie
I live in Toulouse =)
I'm french and I learnt some infos there. Thank you! 😊
The blue and red did represent Paris and by extention the people/revolution, and white the king. So puting them together in 1790 reprensented the will to unite the ideas of the French Revolution and the monarchy. You all know Bastille Day on the 14th of July (1789) but originally the french "fête nationale" celebrated an other 14th of July (1790): "la fête de la fédération" which celebrated the renewed faith in the monarchy for the people with the promise of the king to accept some ideas of the Revolution. So no surprise that the tricolore flag was created that same year 1790.
That was interesting! I was told that the blue was the color of the people, white that of the king and red the blood of those who died during the revolution, the position of the colors meaning that the king is surrounded. But that's probably a tale for all the revolutionaries out there (here here)
Also, kah-peh-sea-en (the T turns into an S sound)
Good job on the video!
Very good video man !
However I noted a small mistake : houses of Valois and Bourbon are not new dynasties that ruled France after the Capetians, they are part of the capetian dynasty. Every king of these houses was a direct descendant of Hugh Capet, who got elected king of the Franks ni 987, but sometimes by a different way.
In France, we say that three dynasties ruled the country : the Merovingians (house of Clovis, that ruled from the late 5th century to the mid 8th century), the Carolingians (houses of Charlemagne, until 987) and then the Capetians from 987 to 1848 with a small break during the revolution and with Napoleon. Inside this last dynasty, we find different branches with the direct Capetians, the house of Valois, the house of Valois-Orléans, the house of Valois-Angoulême, the house of Bourbon....
Can you explain the Nordic Cross flags next please?
He already has a Nordig Cross video.
Trois fleurs de Lys, avec un "S", sinon good
@SWØŘĐ français .
is this sheldon's youtube channel?
No 😂😂
Great video! Just as small mistakes about regional flags. With the exception of Bretagne / Brittany, the flags you showed aren't often used in real life. They're sort of coats of arms even though they're called flags. Regions will traditionally use their logos which all contain text, these logos would be the real flags of regions. So the Occitanie/a flag you showed is actually their logo ^^ they've got a coat of arms too.
c'est clair on le voit partout notre gwenn ha du xD
I like the background music made of traditional French songs, like La Marseillaise and Au près de ma blonde !
Thank you! Whenever a video is country-based I try to look up marches from that specific place to serve as the soundtrack
@@General.Knowledge That's awesome ! I really like the march called Trois Jeunes Tambours (3 young drums), but you've probably got it already. I wish you good luck for that French Revolution video !
@@General.Knowledge then when yu show up the flag of bretagne try to use our celtic music ;P
I mean, we're one of the rare region of France to hardly preserv our celtic culture it would have been ez to find some musique bretonne like 3 martolod or whatever xD
The first coat of arms of the Capetians was actually a bunch of fleurs de lys on a blue field, hence the first dynastic banner being a blue banner with a lot of fleurs de lys. The banner changed after the coat of arms changed to be 3 fleurs de lys on a blue field. Also, there’s no difference between the coats of arms of the Houses of Capet, Valois, and Bourbon WHILE they ruled France respectively. As the Valois and Bourbons were branches of the Capetians, they took the same coat of arms when they became the seniormost branch of the family, which was always when they took the throne. Before that, their coats of arms had marks of difference to distinguish them from their parent house. The only french dynasty to break this custom was the House of Orleans during the July Monarchy as there were still members of the French Bourbon dynasty that were still alive in addition to being a symbolic break from the Restoration period.
That was interesting. I want to visit Paris. This was awesome.
You should visit an other city, Paris is almost good for tourist, when you only want to see big monuments, but behind that thats a bad city and you have to beware all the stealers
Thx for talking about our flag. Freedom, equality, brotherhood my friends.
I heard about the idea of Paris' colors around king's color, but another theory is :
Lafayette was a part of the American Revolution. His soldiers wore a blue, white, red cocarde : the American one. The French Tricolore could be inspired by the American one and I think it's beautiful.
It's indeed plausible.
Marvelous research and presentation as usual. May I ask the origin of your accent? Merci.
In early medieval times, blue was the most expensive color to make. This is why many royal flags in europe have a bit of blue in it. (There is aan interesting video about it on the channel vsauce)Btw one of those flags look a lot like the flag of Brussels , wonder what the connection is
Nice video! As mentionned in other comments the occitanian flag doesn't have words in it, this is an administrative flag. Great work of research, and you could have added that in fact the white flag for surrender comes from france ennemis that used it to surrender, because it was french monarchy colour ;)
5:07 It was also the flag of France during WWII.
Very well done and accurate
I know we don't usualy prononce de "S" at the end of the words but we do for "Lys" :D
J'avoue. Pourquoi on le prononce celui là? XD
Andrew V.
Hello, random person on the internet sharing the same first letter of the last name and the whole first name. xD
Wow you have my resoect
A portuguese man talking good about France/french people
😂😂😂
Spanish**
@@TheTattieShaw dios mio
Si no sabes de lo que hablas callate conho
Yo soy portugues y sé quando alguien es portugues tabien
Perdona los errores
Not a clue what you're saying pal but I was saying that GenralKnowledge is Spanish
@@TheTattieShaw ohoo ok I thought you were spanish
Well let me tell you that he is in fact Portuguese and not Spanish
Why
His pronounciation of some of the names of portuguese places and names etc.
And the way he almost always brings up portugal in other topics the way only a portuguese would
All of that only a portuguese would maybe able to grasp it
So thats why you dont and never will be able to understand that.
I'm sorry
1) also lumo's comment prevails : blue and red is Paris and the white is the king
2) the three parts are vertical because the dutch had their flag before
Long before, way way long before.
Vive la France
Love you videos!
Is there a source for the claim that the russian flag is inspired by the french? To my knowledge, the slavic countries chose red-white-blue as the colors for their pan-movement and inspired by the dutch flag and are therefore used by them (just look at the flags of Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia).
You are correct, even the French flag is inspired by the Dutch flag because it was a revolutionary flag (the rise against Spain, 1568 I believe), so several hundreds of years older.
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