The flag flies on public buildings and is often waved at sporting events, but it has not been a symbol the French personally embrace. That has changed dramatically in the wake of the Nov. 13 attacks.

SHAPIRO: President Francois Hollande called on people to hang French flag, which, as you say, is not as common in France as it is in the U.S.

A young Parisian who once might have stopped and stared in distaste now walks nonchalantly past a large Tricolor flag flapping in the November rain on a home in Paris' 8th district.

French President Emmanuel Macron greets U.S. President Donald Trump at the G7 summit in Biarritz, France, on August 26, 2019. A flag with the darker shade of blue can be seen behind Macron.

In France though, the flag has taken on a more complicated meaning. It’s no longer simply a symbol of the triptych known around the world: liberté, égalité, fraternité.

“Today in Marseille, France, the French Army managed to mix the colors and instead of the French tricolor they got the Russian flag,” an individual with the account name Trollstoy sharing the ...

"Got a French flag on your Facebook profile picture? In the aftermath of the coordinated terrorist attacks across Paris last Friday (Nov. 13), support popped up in the new public arena: Facebook.

PARIS, France — On the day Paris was liberated from the Nazis in 1944, a young American soldier nabbed a souvenir of epic proportions: He took home the French flag that hung from the Arc de ...

Levisse-Touze believes a different, larger French flag was hanging under the Arc de Triomphe the next day, when Gen. Charles de Gaulle led a victory parade down the Champs-Elysees.

No French Flags!" Mayor Will Robbins that morning received urgent word a special train bearing honorary personages of worldly repute was on the way.

The Fiesta (and then the city's own flags symbol) sustained the French emblem, yet from that date to 2018, little has been made detailing the French presence, and properly so.