What would it take for the Bonapartes to adopt either a totally new flag, or a modification of the tricolor? What would that flag look like?
Ja. How the HECK he managed to make himself Emperor AND keep (most of) thrust of the Republican revolution and revolutionaries, I'm sure I don't know. But he did. His position would be very much weaker if he cut himself off from that support, which dropping the Tricolour would imply.But appropriating the legacy of the Revolution was a brilliant stroke on Napoleon's part; it helped keep the great mass of French people behind him. I don't see how he profits by distancing himself from it.
Maybe just cut out the red and have a blue-and-white bicolor? Or maybe blue, white, and a royal purple?
...ah. I was thinking, red being the color of revolution and bloodshed, zee Bonapartes would not want to risk an overthrow.White is the color that would be dropped, I'd think. That was the color of the House of Bourbon.
...ah. I was thinking, red being the color of revolution and bloodshed, zee Bonapartes would not want to risk an overthrow.
Wasn't the Dutch tricolour still employing orange, not red, at this time?Colors can stand for a lot of different things. Many countries' flags have red in them. The Dutch and Russians adopted blue-white-red (or white-blue-red) tricolors before France did, and neither has any particular revolutionary meaning.
For people not familiar with Napoleonic imagery, this might seem silly. But it is really IS a good suggestion, very in line with e.g. heraldry granted under his tenure.A circle of bees with a big letter N in the middle?
Wasn't the Dutch tricolour still employing orange, not red, at this time?
Also, as you said, red can mean many things, and the red on the French tricolour tended to be associated with blood during the time of Revolutionary zeal.
Ja. How the HECK he managed to make himself Emperor AND keep (most of) thrust of the Republican revolution and revolutionaries, I'm sure I don't know. But he did. His position would be very much weaker if he cut himself off from that support, which dropping the Tricolour would imply.