[2] It symbolically depicts the July Revolution of 1830 which led to the downfall of Charles X and the House of Bourbon.

On the second the royalist emblem of the flag has been shot away leaving the blue sky gaping behind it.

In the third the right portion of the flag is soaked in the blood of the martyrs of the revolution, giving it the appearance of the French tricolour.

[4] The tricolour was strongly associated with the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era and had been suppressed during the Restoration period.

The new July Monarchy of Louis Philippe I adopted the tricolour as the national flag once more.