France changed the color of it's flag over a year ago and no one noticed. French news outlets revealed on Sunday that the blue third of the flag was made darker. The decision is a nod to a darker ...

But in 1976 under President Giscard d'Estaing, the French state introduced a brighter blue on the tricolour to match the blue on the flag of Europe. That decision was partly an aesthetic one ...

"Giscard changed this blue for aesthetic reasons during integration with Europe, but the flag that all the presidents took along with them ever since was not the real French flag," Jolens is ...