France

2011
50 x 50 x 3.3 cm | 28 kg – Multi-layer fused glass with pigment inclusion

National emblem of the Fifth Republic adopted by the constitutions of 1946 and 1958, the tricolor flag was born during the French Revolution.
Indeed, after the storming of the Bastille, the blue and red cockades of the Parisian municipal guard became popular.
La Fayette, who had just fought alongside the American insurgents, had the idea of ​​integrating the white of the royal military flag into the colors of the Republican Guard. This cockade was immediately a great success because all the sympathizers of the cause of freedom wore the blue, white and red of the flag of the United States.
On July 17, 1789, three days after the storming of the Bastille, Louis XVI, going to the Paris city hall, agreed to wear this tricolor cockade. Subsequently, in its decree of March 20, 1790, the National Assembly decided that, “when municipal officers are in office, they will wear as a distinctive mark a scarf in the three colors of the nation:
blue, red and white. »