Emmanuel Macron changed the blue color of the Elysee tricolor a year ago

Emmanuel Macron decided to change the blue color of the French tricolor flags of the Elysee Palace more than a year ago, franceinfo learned from the president’s entourage, confirming information from Europe 1. The decision has been taken for July 14, 2020.

The blue which now appears on the tricolor is the blue used by the French Navy, and the one chosen by the Convention in 1794. In 1976, President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing decided to make changes to the colors, by brightening red and blue. The blue thus approached that of the European flag. It is therefore now returning to its original shade, navy blue, or dark blue.

This change of blue, on which the Elysee has not communicated, is not a choice in opposition to the blue used by the European flag, adds the entourage of Emmanuel Macron. “There is no war of the blues, it does not make sense”, we explain. It is a blue that refers to the imagination still deployed by the president during the ceremonies of November 11 for the Armistice and Hubert Germain’s entry into Mont-Valérien, specifies the entourage of the Head of State. .

It is on February 15, 1794 (27 Pluviôse year II) that the tricolor flag, drawn by the painter Jacques-Louis David, took its final form, when the national convention decreed that the national flag will be “formed of the three national colors , arranged in bands vertically, so that the blue is attached to the pole of the flag, the white in the middle and the red floating in the air “. Today it is the national emblem, defined by article 2 of the constitution of the Fifth Republic.