The tricolour and the palms were laid upon his bier.
It was made of zinc palms and laurels, and the tricolour was laid across it.
In the centre was a clear space, with one very large tent and a cluster of low wooden houses in the middle of it, with the tricolour banner waving above them.
Under one arm was the flat cocked hat with the twopenny tricolour rosette, which was already reproduced in his pictures.
It was the Emperor's soft flat beaver with the little tricolour cockade.
The Italians from that day adopted his tricolour ensign.
Paris rose to resist, and on July 28th, men of the Faubourg St Antoine took possession of the Hotel de Ville, hoisting the tricolour flag again.
By an irony of destiny theTricolour no longer waves over the cradle of the Marseillaise!
At mid-day the defile was made before the Hôtel de Ville, and delegates of the different socialist groups were formally received by the mayor and deputy-mayors, wearing their tricolour scarves of office.
The French, with three or four thousand slaves, armed, and mounting the tricolour cockade, were awaiting them, seemingly on the Savannah north of the town.
The French had occupied the Kasbah, the red-burnoused Spahis were swaggering about the streets and market-places, while the tricolour floated over the city gate, and the fierce fighting men of the Taitok were now fearless of any invader.
He addressed a few words to the people, waving the tricolour banner.
The conspirators seized this opportunity for an outbreak, and surrounded the inn as if from mere curiosity; but when sufficient numbers had gathered they suddenly unfurled the tricolour flag and raised the cries of "Viva Italia!
The circumstance that the tricolour was hoisted on the column before it fell, and waved so that all might see it, is safe evidence that these ignorant Frenchmen knew not what they did.
It was but a poor victory to raise the red flag of the Commune over the tricolour in the heart of the disarmed city, while the same red was retiring before the tricolour in the outskirts.
For thetricolour is the national emblem, and these harlequins desired that this national symbol should go down into the dust with the emperor's statue before their sheet of unhallowed crimson.
A tent was decorated with tricolour flags, evergreens, and garlands, the village band escorted thither the Mayor and Corporation, marching them in with a spirited air, the entire community having turned out to see.
But my hostess smilingly informed me that, as the Tricolour was forbidden in Germanised Lorraine, by way of having the next best thing to it, she had used the Russian colours, symbol of the new ally of France.
Short of saluting the tricolour on Mont Blanc, or of echoing the Marseillaise four hundred and odd feet underground in the cave of Padirac, I think I may fairly say that I have exhausted France as a wonder-horn.
Here, therefore, was no crowding whatever, only a quiet stream of deputies, wearing their tricolour badges accompanied by their ladies, each deputy having the privilege of taking two.
It is also noteworthy that the inhabitants of Toulon retained the tricolour flag, thus signifying their adhesion to constitutional royalism as established in 1791.
Whether the elderly Duke of Brunswick could have withstood the impetuous onset of the ill-clad, half-starved, but unconquerable peasants now following the French tricolour in its progress through Holland, who shall say?
The collapse of the Armed Neutrality League together with the capture of Malta and the surrender of the French garrisons in Egypt left the Union Jack triumphant at sea and the tricolour on the Continent.
The Union Jack replaced the tricolour on the strongholds of Corsica and in the most fertile parts of the West Indies.
Then the white balloon went up with three men, one of whom waved a tricolour flag.
The horse is led by two volunteers, one of whom carries a flagstaff with the tricolour under the Union Jack, and on the summit is perched Boney’s huge hat, labelled ‘For Saint Pauls.
A novel tricolourof red, white, and a washed-out purple had replaced the national flag.
Thus the tricolour flag became the flag of the Revolution, as, during successive changes of government, it was equally the flag of the Consulate and the Empire.
The question had been raised whether the tricolour flag, or the red flag of the Reign of Terror, should be adopted.
No arms were worn, but every deputy exhibited in token of his mission a tricolour sash, and carried a feather in his hat.
Our tricolour is waving from the summit of Monte Santo!
He sang me also certain songs of the Alpini, in one of which they sing that in the Italian tricolour the green stands for the Alpini,[2] the white for the snow on their mountains and the red for their blood.
For Cadorna in his communiqué of the 25th had cried: "Since yesterday ourtricolour has been waving from the summit of Monte Santo!
One gift was a little piece of tricolour ribbon, which an old woman gave to one of us.
The mercantile marine tricolourof black, white and red is emblematic of the joining of the Hohenzollern black and white with the red and white, which was the ensign of the Hanseatic League.
The Belgian tricolour is vertical, the stripes being black next the hoist, yellow in the centre and red in the fly.
The green, white and red Italian tricolour was adopted in 1805, when Napoleon I.
The flag of the Russian mercantile marine is a horizontal tricolour of white, blue and red.
Later, to make it more distinctive, the blue and white stripes changed places, leaving the tricolour as it stands to-day.
The United States flag and the tricolour of France have already been fully dealt with, and in both countries the one flag is common to both men-of-war and ships of the mercantile marine.
The tricolourwas introduced at the time of the Revolution, but the origin of this flag and its colours is a disputed question.
During the first and second empires the tricolour became the imperial standard, but in the centre of the white stripe was placed the eagle, whilst all three stripes were richly powdered over with the golden bees of the Napoleons.
In Brussels it was a long time before they decided to take measures against the wearing of the tricolour rosettes which so many people carried in their buttonholes; in the streets, at least two persons in three displayed our colours.
The German police would enter the shops and demand the immediate removal of all tricolourribbons decorating the windows.
Perhaps it would ease his mind a bit if you were to run the tricolour up to our gaff-end, Mr Bowen.
With almost a common accord the tricolour was adopted--and the next day the Bastille fell.
Besides, military honour required France to keep a fortress that had kept the tricolour flying.
Ultimately, however, the tricolour flag was withdrawn from situations that were legally untenable.
Brazza did good work for the French tricolour in exploring the land north of the Congo and Ubangi rivers; he founded several stations, which were to develop into the great French Congo colony.
A far greater prize fell to the tricolour at the close of 1893.
Over every porch, on every house, a large tricolour flag was displayed; the military embraced and fraternised with the people.
It was a grand room, lofty and spacious as a church, and if I had been a Chauvinist, I should have said that the rays of light in this room composed a tricolour of the same hues as the Hungarian flag.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tricolour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
