Our country's flag and the flags of foreign countries (1898)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York : D. Appleton and company · leaf 153
nd these afterward became the colors ofFrance by a mere co-incidence. The blue hood orcape of St. Martin, areligious banner, wasused by Clovis, Kingof the Franks, abouta. d. 428. St. Mar-tin was a soldier aswell as a saint, andhis banner was a trulywarlike one. Theoriflamme of Charle-magne was the… … Fig. 45.—The oriflamme ofCharlemagne, a. d. 800. Heruli. Charlemagne iounded a new empire called of theWest, and the medal celebrates the renewal of the empire. THE FLAGS OF FRANCE. [23 king, and became a truly national symbol.A national flag must be uniform, universal,obligatory. It must represent…
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