From 1814 to 1830, the French flag was what single colour
White flag Revolution, in 1794, the blue, white and red Tricolore was adopted as the official national flag. The white flag quickly became a symbol of French royalists. (The white part of the French Tricolor is itself originally derived from the old Royal flag, the tricolor having been designed when the revolution still aimed at constitutional monarchy rather than a republic; this aspect of the Tricolor was, however, soon forgotten.) During the Bourbon Restoration, the white flag replaced the Tricolore, by then seen as a symbol of regicide. It was finally abandoned in 1830, with the July Revolution, with the definitive use
French Royal Army (1652–1830) French Royal Army (1652–1830) The French Royal Army () served the Bourbon kings beginning with Louis XIV and ending with Charles X with an interlude from 1792 until 1814, during the French Revolution and the reign of the Emperor Napoleon I. After a second, brief interlude when Napoleon returned from exile in 1815, the Royal Army was reinstated. Its service to the direct Bourbon line was finished when Charles X was overthrown in 1830 by the July Revolution. When Louis XIV came to the French throne in 1661 he inherited a large but loosely organized force of about 70,000 men.