Why did Wendy's house hang the French flag?
In Peter Pan (1953) Wendy's family seems to be a British family living in London. Why is there a French flag? I would have understood it if there were other flags like the UK flag, but there seems to be only the French flag.
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It may be a reference to the Llewellyn Davies Boys who J.M. Barrie fostered. Their birth grandfather was the French-born cartoonist and writer George du Maurier.
Of course it could simply be a souvenir since the Darling's are upper class and are likely to have had the luxury of holidays across the English Channel.
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What was the old French flag?
The tricolour flag is derived from the cockade of France used during the French Revolution. These were circular rosette-like emblems attached to the hat. Camille Desmoulins asked his followers to wear green cockades on 12 July 1789. The Paris militia, formed on 13 July, adopted a blue and red cockade.What does the French flag symbolize?
The colors symbolize nobility (blue), clergy (white), and bourgeois (red), which were the estates of the old regime in France. When the Tricolour was formally adopted in 1794, its colors symbolized the values of the French Revolution: liberty, equality, brotherhood, democracy, secularism, and modernization.Why is the French flag called Tricolore?
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