I'm afraid I can't offer a definitive answer (particularly looking at
unreferrenced commercial websites), but the white flag with the three
fleur-de-lis looks like it might be the most likely candidate, as the
blue background was changed to white in the early 17th C.  See;

http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/frflag.htm

and

http://www.anyflag.com/history/fleurwht.htm

Struck me as odd, because it breaks the cardinal Rule of Tincture I
learned when studying heraldry ("never place a colour on a colour or a
metal on a metal"--white and yellow representing silver and gold being
the metals.  Notice how this still holds true on most highway signs and
licence plates?).  However, my study was of English heraldry; perhaps
the French heralds had no such rule.

Cheers,


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Tim McShane, Assistant--Cultural History
Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery
1302 Bomford Crescent S.W.
Medicine Hat, AB   T1A 5E6
(403) 502-8587

>>> [log in to unmask] 06/24/03 12:55PM >>>
I am searching for what flag would have been carried by the French
expedition through Kansas in 1724.
Capt Etienne Vengard de Bourgmont, the military commander of the
French
colony of Louisiana came through what is now Atchison Kansas. We are
developing an exhibit of flags that would have flown over our county
in
history and are trying to find what type of flag they would have
carried. Since this was before the tri-color I have found some sources
referring to different styles of
FLEUR DE LIS FRENCH FLAGS
My question is which one of these would they have likely carried. I
have
found sources saying in this time it would have been a blue background
with three fluer de lis
one saying it would have been white with 3 gold fluer de lis
and one saying it would have been a white flag with (I believe 9) on
it.

Can anyone fill me in or point to a source to find a more definitive
answer?
Thanks in advance.


--
Chris Taylor
Executive Director
Atchison County Historical Society
P.O. Box 201
200 S. 10th Street, Santa Fe Depot
Atchison, KS 66002
913-367-6238
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http://www.atchisonhistory.org

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