Franco-American Flag

The Franco-American Flag is an ethnic flag representing Franco-Americans.

The colors blue, white, and red symbolize both France and the United States. The star symbolizes Franco-American unity and solidarity in America. The fleur-de-lis on the fly end references the community's French Canadian and French origins.

The Franco-American community of Upstate New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts gave Édith Butler the flag. She presented it in her concert tour in Manchester, New Hampshire on June 24th, 1992.^{[citation needed]}

New England Flag

A Franco-American conference at Manchester's Saint Anselm College in May 1983 adopted a flag to represent their New England community. It was designed by Robert L. Couturier, attorney and one-time mayor of Lewiston, Maine, to have a blue field with a white fleur-de-lis over a white five-pointed star.^[1]^[2]

Note

These two flags continue a tradition of designing flags for the French communities of each Canadian province, extending it to the United States.

References

^ The French-Canadian heritage in New England ([International version] ed.). University Press of New England. pp. 160–161. ISBN 0-7735-0537-7.
^ "The Robert Couturier Collection - Audio-Visual Materials | Franco-American Collection | University of Southern Maine". usm.maine.edu.

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[1] The French-Canadian heritage in New England ([International version] ed.). University Press of New England. pp. 160–161. ISBN 0-7735-0537-7.

[2] "The Robert Couturier Collection - Audio-Visual Materials | Franco-American Collection | University of Southern Maine". usm.maine.edu.

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