Marianne
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Marianne has been the national personification of the French Republic since the French Revolution, as a personification of liberty, equality, fraternity and reason, as well as a portrayal of the Goddess of Liberty.
Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix (1830), celebrates the July Revolution (Louvre Museum).
Mariannes during a La Manif pour tous protest in 2013
Marianne on a poster, the Year III of the Republic.
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, white immediately outside and red on the edge.
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