because that's the name of their leader
La Résistance - Le Maquis
le jour de l'armistice, le 11 novembre (or "le huit mai" for WWII)
the french and English territory
The Hexagon or in French, le Hexagon.
The present Canadian National Flag has a maple leaf. The maple leaf first appeared as a symbol on a Canadian Flag in 1837. This came about after Étienne Parent added maple leaves to the masthead of his newspaper, Le Canadie, in 1836 and noted, "Le principal, la feuille d'Erable, a été, comme on sait, adopté comme l'emblême du Bas-Canada..." In due course, in 1837 the 'Patriots of Saint-Eustache' carried a banner/flag with a design very similar to the masthead of the Le Canadien, i.e. showing the maple leaf. In 1870, after the Confederation, the Canadian Governor General's flag displayed a wreath of maple leaves at the centre. Then, in 1871, an article in the Canadian Illustrated News mistakenly displayed the symbols from the Governor General's Flag as an ensign badge. In 1965, shortly before the centennial of the country, Canada had its first official and exclusively Canadian flag: the National Flag: with a single maple leaf at the centre.For more information see Related Links below the following advertisements:
The French flag -- le drapeau françaisIt may also be referred to as the tricolor : le tricolore or le drapeau tricolore
In France the flag is called 'le drapeau'. You may call it 'le drapeau tricolore' if you want to insist that it has three colours in it.
Le Tricolore - the tricolour
The Tricolour (le tricolore)
The French call their flag "le drapeau" or "le drapeau français". It has three colours so the adjective 'tricolore' (literally meaning three colours) is sometimes used, but certainly more by non-native speakers than by the French themselves.
bleu blanc rouge OR le drapeau tricolore.
Le Tricolore - the tricolour
The French flag - tri-color - three colours. Blue, white and red, in that order.
The national Flag of France (known in French as le drapeau, le drapeau français, le drapeaubleu-blanc-rouge, le drapeau tricolore, rarely, le tricolore and, in military parlance, les couleurs) is a tricolour featuring three vertical bands coloured blue (hoist side), white, and red. It is known to English speakers as the French tricolor/tricolour (see spelling differences), or the tricolore.
Le Tricolore, more properly Le Drapeau Tricolore. La Marseillaise is the national anthem; l'Hexagone is the shape of the country.
Le (Drapeau)Tricolore.
There is no particular name given to the French flag in French.It is usually called "le drapeau français" (The French flag) or le "drapeau tricolore" (The three colored flag).On a boat it is usually "le Pavillon français". Pavillon is a generic name given to the flag on boats or when the flag is half-masted.to fly the flag of ... = naviguer sous pavillon ....flag of convenience = Pavillon de complaisanceto half-mast the flags - mettre les drapeaux (or les pavillons) en berne.