ocr: FRANCE The three-colored flag of France is known: as the tricolor. It has become a symbol ofl liberty throughout the world and has intluenced the designs of: many flags. - In1794, a few years after the French Kevolution made France a republic, the tricolor replaced the gold and white flag of the French monarchy, White was the royal color of the Bourbon kings, and blue and red were the colors of Paris, the nation's capital.