The theme of national identity is part of the campaign for the presidential election. Thus, Ségolène Royale offers to all the French to obtain and release it at great national occasions. Report in Paris, illustrated by archive images and a micro-pavement.
The Senate adopted the government’s amendment proposing that the tricolour flag and the motto of the Republic be affixed to the fronton of all secondary schools and educational institutions, both public and private. Overview of reactions of students of the Lycée Louis Feuillade in Lunel in the Hérault. Interviews with Alain ABADIE, principal of the Lycée Louis Feuillade in Lunel and a mother of a pupil.
The President of the Republic François HOLLANDE, invited the entire French population, to wear a tricolour flag in memory of the victims of the attacks of November 13, 2015, during the day of tribute. Telewalkers in Paris and Lyon.
The house Arthus-Bertrand manufactures flags for the army since practically the Second Empire. Interviewed, Mr ARTHUS-BERTRAND explains the manufacture of flags. He returns to the choice of silk and weaving: "Silk is a very particular silk, so there is first an obligation of the size of the yarn, the quality of the silk...".
Interviewed, Annie MOLLARD-DESFOUR, linguist at the CNRS, discusses the origin of the colours of the French tricolour flag, blue, white, red. It presents several hypotheses.