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The French flag could have been green.
On July 12, 1789, the revolutionary Camille Desmoulins harangues the crowd and picks a lime tree leaf, green in color, a symbol of freedom.
The first revolutionary cockade was born.
Unfortunately for him, green is also the color of the livery of the Comte d'Artois, the future Charles X and patent reactionary.
The tricolor cockade, much more appropriate, will eventually prevail over the following days.
Camille Desmoulins at the Royal Palace, 19th century chromolithograph.
Bianchetti / Leemage
230 years later, at the top of the tricolor state, it was impossible to agree on the most appropriate shade of green to repaint the end of Emmanuel Macron's five-year term.
Have a nice day,
Silvère Boucher-Lambert, journalist at Le Figaro
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