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![[Blue Wave flag]](../images/f/fr!bwave.gif)
Glez' Blue Wave flag - Image by Ivan Sache, 29 November 2002
In France, the blue colour is traditionally associated with the
conservative parties. The big success obtained by these parties
during the spring 2002 legislative election was nicknamed the
"blue wave" (vague bleue).
Courrier International #610 (28 November 2002) shows a
cartoon by Glez, originally published in Le Journal du Jeudi
(Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso), on which the
French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin is represented waving a
Tricolor flag with stripes "reflecting" the current political
situation.
Of course, the colours of the French
national flag do not have any specific political meaning. In the French national
flag, blue never symbolized conservatism and red never
symbolized communism.
Ivan Sache, 29 November 2002
![[Blue Wave flag]](../images/f/fr!sansm.gif)
Flag lacking the central white stripe - (left) Image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 October 2025
(right) original artwork from The Economist
A synthetic surrealist image of the national flag of France lacking the central white stripe, with the fly-side blue stripe nonetheless flying unperturbed, likely alluding to a percieved polarization of the French society to political extremes, to illustrate the cover| title “The centre cannot hold” (or, in the U.S. edition, “France’s centre cannot hold”) in the online edition of The Economist on 2024.06.29: photo, photo, photo, photo.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 December 2024
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