Humourous use of the colours of the French flag

Last modified: 2024-12-14 by olivier touzeau
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• Wrong version of the French national flag with extra red stripe
• Groland (Fictious principality, France)

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Wrong version of the French national flag with extra red stripe

Wrong French flag with extra red stripe - Image by António Martins, 20 December 2023

July 14th is the main national holiday in France, and the Patrouille de France of the French Air Force usually offers a display of the Tricolore in the skies of Paris made with fighter jets streaking in formation while releasing colored smoke.

In 2018 one of the nine smoke tint containers was swicthed, causing the rightmost one to be red instead of the expected blue: photo (2018) (compare with 2022 for example].

António Martins, 20 December 2023

The mistake did not go unnoticed by spectators and even inspired some. On social networks, many Internet users gently mocked this error and imagined wearing these colors on the following Sunday evening, during the World Cup final between France and Croatia. See examples here [source: 20 minutes newspaper].

Olivier Touzeau, 7 December 2024