The challenge --
The year is 1802. The Cajun and Creole communities in the Mississippi Delta region – Louisiana – have given up on France coming and reestablishing its empire in North America. They have also grown fearful that US expansionism will soon become a threat to their way of life. A rebellion – by one or both groups – overthrows the colonial authority in Louisiana and establishes an independent Empire of Louisiana. Your challenge is to design a flag for the empire and to give the flag a distinctively “New World” (Cajun and/or Creole) look.
The entries --
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Louisiana Empire flag based on the cajun capuchin - it's basically a large blue capuchin on a semy of black capuchins.
#2=
The first flag raised by Louisianan separatists was simply the tricolour with the white stripe ripped out and the red and blue restitched together with the colours reversed. Later a single star and a cross were added, representing Louisiana's sovereignty and Christianity. Early versions of the flag with both a gold and a white star were common before the gold variant won out.
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The Empire of Lousiana was proclaimed to be an ideal land, where the mistakes of La revolution would be corrected, and the glorious monarchy represented by the ancient fleur-de-lys is reconciled with the tenets of fraternite, libertie, solidarite shown by the red, the white, and the blue. Of note: the white dominates, showing the preminence liberty is given in La republic de roi de louisianne.
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Flag of the Empire of Louisiana:
The year is 1802. The Cajun and Creole communities in the Mississippi Delta region – Louisiana – have given up on France coming and reestablishing its empire in North America. They have also grown fearful that US expansionism will soon become a threat to their way of life. A rebellion – by one or both groups – overthrows the colonial authority in Louisiana and establishes an independent Empire of Louisiana. Your challenge is to design a flag for the empire and to give the flag a distinctively “New World” (Cajun and/or Creole) look.
The entries --
#1=
Louisiana Empire flag based on the cajun capuchin - it's basically a large blue capuchin on a semy of black capuchins.
#2=
The first flag raised by Louisianan separatists was simply the tricolour with the white stripe ripped out and the red and blue restitched together with the colours reversed. Later a single star and a cross were added, representing Louisiana's sovereignty and Christianity. Early versions of the flag with both a gold and a white star were common before the gold variant won out.
#3=
The Empire of Lousiana was proclaimed to be an ideal land, where the mistakes of La revolution would be corrected, and the glorious monarchy represented by the ancient fleur-de-lys is reconciled with the tenets of fraternite, libertie, solidarite shown by the red, the white, and the blue. Of note: the white dominates, showing the preminence liberty is given in La republic de roi de louisianne.
#4=
Flag of the Empire of Louisiana:
