USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Colour became an important vehicle for showing one’s political affiliations during the French Revolution. The patriots and the revolutionaries in France started wearing blue, white, and red clothes.

Detailed explanation-2: -The “tricolore” (three-colour) flag is an emblem of the Fifth Republic. It had its origins in the union, at the time of the French Revolution, of the colours of the King (white) and the City of Paris (blue and red). Today, the “tricolour” flies over all public buildings.

Detailed explanation-3: -The national flag of France (French: drapeau français) is a tricolour featuring three vertical bands coloured blue (hoist side), white, and red. It is known to English speakers as the Tricolour (French: Tricolore), although the flag of Ireland and others are also so known.

Detailed explanation-4: -This tricoloured cockade became the basis of the French National Flag or Le Drapeau Tricolore. Post the French Revolution, Le Drapeau Tricolore with vertical coloured stripes of Red-White-Blue was adopted as the National Flag.

Detailed explanation-5: -Therefore the correct option is (c) Blue-white-red. Note : France is a country with Tricolour on the national flag symbolizing aristocracy represented by the colour blue, clergy represented by the colour white and bourgeois represented by the colour red combined as bands of colour forming France’s national flag.