Actually, it's blue, white and red - reading from the flagpole outwards.
In the early days of the revolution, the people of Paris, fearful that the King was sending foreign mercenary soldiers to occupy the city, called out the local militia to defend them. This body needed some form of identification, so they made armbands and cockades in the colours of the city's coat of arms - blue and red. Later, when a brief accommodation was made between King and people, and the King had been forced to wear the cockade, a compromise was reached under which the new flag included the blue and red, with the addition of the white from the Bourbon family's royal flag. This proved popular and remained even after the execution of the King. Successive governments - the First republic, the Directory, the Consulate and Napoleon's Empire - adopted the tricolour, which disappeared for a time under the restoration, to return permanently in 1848.
A common interpretation is that the blue, white and red stand for the principles of the French Revolution - liberty, equality, and fraternity respectively - but this is a poetic re-interpretation, rather than based on any historical evidence.
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The coat of arms of Paris is blue and red. At the storming of the Bastille, those attackers who had no uniform wore blue and red cockades. Later, when the KIng was a prisoner of the Parisians, it was Lafayette who suggested that a good new flag for the reformed French state would be the blue and red of Paris, enclosing the white of the old régime's Bourbon flag. This seemed a good idea at the time, and has proved most durable.
Note that the French flag is not red, white and blue, but blue, white and read (reading, as one does with flags, from the flagpole outwards).
The red also means blood from the french revalotion
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Three vertical stripes - from left to right colours blue white red
Because it shows that france has abolished monarchy and had become a republic.
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the three colors of the flag of France are blue,white and red
The blue and the Red are the colour of Paris and surround the white which is the colour of Monarchy.
Blue, white and red.
There is no yellow in the French flag- it is a tricolour of three vertical bars of blue, white and red. Blue and red are ancient traditional colours of Paris, and the white bar was added by the revolutionary Lafayette as he claimed that white was 'the ancient colour of France'.
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blue, white and red in three vertical bars of equal width.
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Red, white and blue.
blue = loyalty red = bravery white = courage
Red, white, and blue are the flag colors of Serbia.