Cockade of France
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The cockade of France is the national ornament of France, obtained by circularly pleating a blue, white and red ribbon. It is composed of the three colors of the French flag, with blue in the center,
Camille Desmoulins, who devised the first French cockade
Officer of the gendarmerie nationale of the revolutionary era wearing a hat with a tricolor cockade
Detail of a presidential Citroën SM
A Dassault Rafale with a French tricolor cockade
Marianne
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Marianne has been the national personification of the French Republic since the French Revolution, as an emblem of liberty, equality, fraternity and reason, as well as a portrayal of the Goddess of Li
Cockade of France
…cockade is also used on certain elite uniforms, both military and civilian, which include headwear decorated with it. It is likewise an attribute of Marianne, the national allegorical representation of France, who is conventionally depicted wearing a Phrygian cap, sometimes decorated with a tricolor cockade…
Bust of Marianne sculpted by Théodore Doriot, in the French Senate
Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix (1830), celebrates the July Revolution (Louvre Museum).
Marianne on a poster, the Year III of the Republic
"Freedom for France, freedoms for the French" Marianne (1940)